Two promoters have announced plans for a two-day festival attracting up to 12,000 visitors and 300 performers from across the world.

Blatantly Brighton will take place in August next year at a cost of £300,000 and will feature a variety of top DJs, pop acts and comedians on four stages.

Organisers hope it will become a regular event and could one day match the Brighton Festival, creating hundreds of jobs and bringing millions of pounds into the local economy.

Event management firm Rebel With A Cause has chosen a city centre park - yet to be announced - to house a main open-air stage, a 1,500-capacity dance tent, a live stage and bar for bands and comedians, a carnival tent, a marquee and a therapy centre.

Directors Cat Duval and Claire Pontet-Piccolomini say they want to capitalise on Brighton's reputation as "a melting pot of artistic flair".

They said: "This event will not only be an incredible outdoor party but the involvement and ownership of local sound systems, artists, musicians, producers and performers will ensure its impact runs much deeper and lays the foundation for a festival with staying power."

Rebel With A Cause has been working with a number of production companies, record labels and venues including Fatboy Slim's Skint and Concorde 2.

Although they are keeping the set list secret, the organisers have so far signed up 30 bands and DJs and are hoping to attract big names through their contacts in the music industry.

If local bands decide to pitch in and support the festival the stage could be taken by acts like Keane, Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster, The Ordinary Boys or The Electric Soft Parade.

Rebel With A Cause has also formed partnerships with Harmony in the Community, which produced the Burning of the Clocks, Brighton Festival Carnival Parade, Samba Parade and some of the many event management experts behind the Glastonbury and Pride festivals.

Miss Pontet-Piccolomini, 27, from Goldsmid Road, Hove, said: "Everyone emigrates when there is a big festival on but there is a massive demand for an event here in Brighton."

Miss Duval, 25, said: "We hope it will become a nationally significant annual event bringing people in from all over.

"We have both been involved in the music industry for a while and we came back from a season of festivals and started thinking of ways we could create something different.

"We have got all the top nightclub promoters and record labels on board and this is sure to be something unmissable."

There will also be walkabout theatre, stilt walkers, market stalls, barbecue area and festival amusements around the site.

For further information, visit www.blatantlybrighton.co.uk @theargus.co.uk