In conjunction with Musicport, Chumbawamba are set to play The Compass Club at Whitby’s Coliseum on Friday 25 July.

The band have got a new 25-track album The Boy Bands Have Won which incorporates a mixture of sad, jolly, up, down, quiet, loud, slow and fast songs while singing about such importance’s as poetry, war, death, knickers and Lord Bateman’s motorbike accident.

And audience members will get to hear a host of songs from it and past recordings too.

Chumbawamba’s first album Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records, was a response to Live Aid 20 years ago, where the band decided it was their mission to be interesting and arresting, literate and understanding.

The Boy Bands Have Won is a collection of the same such ideas – some of which are passing thoughts, others fully-formed songs.

This new album is ideas about culture fused with samples of past Chumbawamba, with the formula messed around.

Promoter Jim McLaughlin said: “I caught Chumba-wamba’s great performance at Beverley Festival recently, and their hard work oer the past couple of years shows the quality in the musicianship, the strength of the songs and yet they still manage to keep that wonderful and challenging anarchic edge that is their trademark.”

The Boy Bands Have Won guest features the Oyster Band, Roy Bailey, Robb Johnson, Barry Coope and Jim Boyes among others.

And songs tell the story of El Fusilado, the man who survived a firing squad execution as well as one about Gary Tyler, an innocent man who spent 30 years on America’s Death Row.

Further songs feature Margaret Thatcher and Add Me – a dig at people who clutter up cyberspace.

Tickets for the concert on Friday 25 July cost £15. Concessions are priced £13.

Doors open at 8pm.

To book tickets telephone (01947) 605809.