Britain's jubilee bank holiday weekend will see The Regulars heading out of Birmingham for an amazing third time this year.

Your favourite treasonous guitar pop band will follow up recent jaunts to Leeds and Worcester by heading over to Nottingham to appear alongside the excellent Chris TT at an anti-jubilee gig organised by Tasty fanzine supremo and local Socialist Alliance activist Mr Sam Metcalf.

Irritated by the apparent rehabilitation of the monarchy into public life since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales - and even the considerably less spectacular demise this year of the Queen Mother - the Regs were only too happy to take up Sam's invitation to play.

Pete explained: "The Regulars are playing this anti-jubilee gig to remind people to keep arguing for a republic.

"Next time someone tells you how great the royal family are for the tourism industry, remind them that one in three UK schoolchildren is still officially living in poverty, all the royals shame our nation in the eyes of the world by wearing rubbish clothes, and Prince Harry probably listens to Travis.

"I don't advocate violent revolution though. I want the monarchy written out of the constitution today, but I can happily wait at least a week before the royals are all forced to attend jobseeker interviews."

Sam elucidated on his reasons for organising the gig. "When the gap between the richest and poorest in the UK is now greater than ever, what reason do we have to celebrate the jubilee?" he said.

"To celebrate the continued, undemocratic privilege that the royals enjoy is to celebrate poverty and injustice."

The gig is to go ahead on the bank holiday Monday, 3 June, at Nottingham's new and aptly renamed Rose of England venue on Mansfield Road - shortly to be reopened following its current defirkinisation - with the raucous psychedel-ish strains of local outfit Dallas Burn completing a three-band line-up.