An award-winning Egremont musician is looking forward to a successful 2017 as his band plan to release new music and gear up for a big Leeds gig.

Ryan Kitto, from Orgill, and his band, Late Night Legacy, were named Best New Band and Best National Band of 2016 by radio station TFM, which covers the North East.

And now the band has released its first singles online with Ryan set to return to Cumbria for a summer gig in Workington.

He said: "We have two brand new tracks available on iTunes, Spotify and Amazon Music. The tracks are called Of Our Times and Oversold and Overdrawn.

"Although we will be releasing an EP and album to CD and vinyl in the not so distant future, we realised early on that we needed to get on online platforms to get our music heard so we have done whatever we could to make it happen."

Ryan, who is based in Leeds, went to Wyndham School before leaving Egremont to go to university in the city. But he will be back in his home county for a summer show at Workington's Townfest.

"A new music video and new single will be released around March/April time, but that's all I can say about that at this point," he said.

"We have a Cumbria date on our Summer Festival Tour, which I cannot wait for, Townfest at Workington Town Ground playing alongside Atomic Kitten, 5ive, A1, Kelly Llorenna and Reptillians. It will be huge."

And on January 21, the band will play one of its biggest shows so far at Leeds' O2 Academy.

"It feels like only yesterday I was sat on the balcony with my brother watching Black Label Society thinking one day we'll play that stage, now we are!"

He added: "I couldn't be happier right now in this band, it's all I've ever wanted to do since I was about 15, I remember playing with my first band Hostile on stages like The Kings Arms in Egremont, Rum Story in Whitehaven and just feeling so at ease and comfortable on stage.

"To now see total strangers in the crowds 100 miles away from where we're based wearing our T-shirts and singing our songs back to us is absolutely mental."