HOME-GROWN rockers Delays are jetting into Southampton direct from recording their second album to stage a charity gig for the victims of the tsunami disaster.

The four-piece band that started life in a garage in Bitterne Park will be joined by fellow Southampton acts D!D!D! and Alaskan Pipeline for the event at Portswood's Brooks Arts Centre.

Another mystery band could still be announced before the gig goes ahead on February 3.

And if all 600 tickets sell out, it will raise a superb £6,000 for communities wrecked when the earthquake swept across the Indian Ocean on Boxing Day.

Organiser Russ Saunders said: "The bands are giving their time for free, The Brooks is staging it for free, the sound engineers and even the printing for advertising will be done for free.

"This is 100 per cent for charity and tickets will be on sale this week."

Delays, who found chart success with their top 20 single Long Time Coming, performed to 40,000 people at last year's Isle of Wight festival and will be arriving in the city fresh from recording album number two.

Fronted by guitarist Greg Gilbert, the band were signed in 2003 by Rough Trade Records but regularly still play in venues around hometown Southampton.

Manager Mike Gilbert said: "They have donated money like everybody else but they just wanted to do a little bit more, and then the chance came up to do this gig back in Southampton."

Tickets cost £10 each. Ring The Brooks on 023 8055 5366 to book.