Classic Rock

CALL OF THE WILD

This month The Dirt was compiled by Lee Dorrian, Jerry Ewing, Ian Fortnam, Polly Glass, Rich Hobson, Rob Hughes Jo Kendall, Fraser Lewry, Will Simpson, Paul Whitelaw

Ever-present Wildhearts frontman Ginger, who co-founded the band back in 1989, recently recorded an as yet untitled eleventh Wildhearts studio album with bassist Jon Poole, guitarist Ben Marsden and drummer Pontus Snibb, and the four-piece are currently gearing up for a post-hiatus show at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire on June 6, with soon-to-be-announced tour dates to follow this autumn

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