In the next couple of months I have got an amazing sequence of gigs with some of my great musical heroes..

Starting TONIGHT 18th with Crass legend Steve Ignorant and his Slice Of Life band AND the wonderful Jesuscarfish at the LCB depot in Leicester.

Then on May 22nd I am with the great George Borowski and Moya and my dear friend and comrade Stevie Jones at The Three Cocks Inn Kettering.

May 24th sees me and the band and Lumière Ogbanje's magnificent lightshow support the awesome long-awaited return of The Doctors Of Madness, their first Midlands show in 40 years at Leicester's Musician. Do not miss!!!

May 28th at The Musician we pause for thought to remember one of music's true nice guys, Mr Ian Babington - I'll be joining a host of artists to pay tribute to him.

June 3rd I am at Leicester Riverside festival then on the dreaded election night June 8th come and share some musical light with the ever-classic mainman Terry Reid and I at The Musician.

June 25th I join the lovely Labour Partiers for an open air event at The Boathouse Barrow Upon Soar - celebrating the new Corbyn Labour government of course!

And July 16th at The Muso with my soulbrotherhomie Steve Parker we have the wonderful Keith Christmas

- and I have the honour of sharing a stage with Keith again on the next night, the 17th, at The Old Labour Club in Northampton.

PLEASE NOTE Keith and I are free for a possible Tuesday 18th gig in the Midlands area - any offers?

I should also complete both the epic 17 song new Kevin Hewick album at Deadline Studios with Adam Ellis with contributions by Autumn Dawn Leader, Jonathan Read, Rhett Barrow, David Conrad Dhonau and Mark Haynes, out.. when its ready of course!

And also there is the 2 hour plus voyage into sound recorded in collaboration with Alessandro Monti, Jim Tetlow , MarChris Conway, Lee Boyd Allatson , Steve Escott and Mark Haynes.. between these two albums thats over 3 hours of music to unleash on the world, we have all worked hard on these projects but I promise you they will be worth the wait..

May 6: Today was a day Labour supporters in Leicester shared a positive, hopeful day. We are not deluded, we know the problems out there, and the huge mountain to climb to even do reasonably well. I am so sorry people will choose to vote for a government that will ultimately treat them very badly and unfairly. It would not be easy to improve things but for all it's muddles and failings at least Labour will try, there are some core values in there just as there are also those who will let us down - but the Tories are no perfect efficient machine either. It's not too late to vote for something better, something that will give us all a valiant attempt to change things for the better, for all.