A PRIMARY school band are set to grace the stage at Flamingo Land’s Party in the Park, after winning the public vote in a Battle of the Bands competition.

Bangers and Thrash, a band of six nine year-olds from Cundall Manor School near Thirsk, swapped their ABCs for their AC/DC and claimed the top prize in Minster FM’s latest competition.

They were the only primary school band in the finals competing against some of the brightest young musical talent in the region.

The boys, Gus Fenby, Oliver Lee, Joshua Reece, Zach Old, Tommy Marston and James Craig have been practising as a band for a year after being inspired by their favourite rockers AC/DC.

After claiming 27 per cent of the public vote, they will get to perform as part of a series of concerts at Flamingo Land this summer.

The group will also get tickets for 56 of their friends to join them at the Party in the Park and will travel in style on a specially sponsored coach for the band and their friends.

Sarah Reece, Cundall Manor’s director of music, said: “We were delighted that our boys made the final of the competition. They love playing as a band and to win the competition is amazing.”