Amsterdam will play an early evening FREE show at the South:Central Festival in Sutton, South London on Friday 4 September.

Sutton’s SouthCENTRAL:Festival (4-6 September, Sutton High Street, South London) has pulled in a cracking line-up. For a free event the festival is punching well above its weight, and why would you want to be anywhere else except Millennium Square for three days of exceptional live music – with the added bonus of an open-air bar.

Feel free to come and enjoy an evening with your favourite band!

Map of the venue

The full Amsterdam line up returns to the stage this September with a show for the Working Class Music Festival which takes place to celebrate the TUC having their annual conference in the city’s brand new arena.

The festival is a riot of song and appreciation of the long struggle undertaken by working people to secure decent lives down the centuries.

The gig is on Tuesday 15 September at the New Picket near the Echo Arena. All information and tickets for the show is available at workingclassmusic.org.uk.

Support comes from the magnificent English folk singer/guitarist Phil Hare who has been a big influence on Ian down the years. Local band the Trestles will also be adding to the quality evening.

Ian will be promoting the show and the festival this Saturday morning on Billy Butler’s radio show at 11am on BBC Radio Merseyside.

After the utter triumph of last Saturday’s first Pele show in 16 years, the lads and lasses now head for London Water rats. There are still some tickets available from www.ticketweb.co.uk.

We advise you not to miss this, last Saturday is already being talked about as gig of the century! The band will be on stage at 9:15pm.

Don’t forget you can also follow Ian’s summer blog in the forum.

After furiously rehearsing ‘to get back to how hot we used to be’ Pele are now ready to return to the stage after a 16-year gap. Tickets are still available for the show at the O2 Academy show in Liverpool.

Support comes from the Verdict and the Bo Weevils. Pele will hit the stage at 9:30pm.

Bring along your singing voices and enjoy the dash down memory lane. You can read press concerning the reunion in the forum.

Ian and the gang will be recording a brand new album in September. CIA records have given the OK for work to begin at Charlton Farm studios with Louie Nicastro again producing.

Songs are being demoed and chosen over the summer before work begins in earnest in September.