AS the stars jet in to Glasgow for the 20th MTV EMAs, the city's homegrown talent has already got the party started.

With the Hydro hosting the likes of Katy Perry, Enrique Inglesias and Ed Sheeran, a new stage has sprung up for the music hopefuls of the future.

Central Station LIVE launched yesterday, with 18 performances by up and coming performers over two days.

Ten singer/songwriters are taking to the stage today, beneath the concourse clock, including Glasgow singer and model Rebekah Kirk, who has performed at under 18 acoustic sessions in the city's Jayz bar, in Kilmarnock Road, Shawlands.

She will be taking to the stage at 4.30pm today and said she was "so proud to have been chosen" and was "really looking forward to it."

Organisers Delysia Grewal, Digi Marketing director, and Glasgow-based Ghanaian hip hop artist Kobi Onyame, the founder of It Takes A Village, said they wanted to bring music to the masses, entertaining the 70,000 people who pass through the station every day with a string of unsigned artists.

The acoustic performances take place between noon and 7pm, on a specially constructed stage, with "an eclectic" mix of performers.

They kicked off yesterday with Kevin McGuire, who said he was looking forward to performing. "It's going to be a good one," he said.

Also performing were Kobi, Little Eye, Matt Comley, Wondering Sons, Ryan Alexander, Gary McDowell, Josie Rose, and the Flying Penguins.

Today's performers are the Couriers Club, Matt Comley, Martin Aelred, Billy Jeffrey Jnr, David McDonald, Liane Henry, Scott Nicol, Florence Quay-Soway, Kev Young and Rebekah Kirk.

Kobi, who released his Glory album last year, said it was great to finally see "an idea become reality."

victoria.brenan@eveningtimes.co.uk