HARD-HITTING rockers The Wildhearts set out on their UK tour early next month on the crest of a wave.

The band, who first hit the charts in the early 90s, have just returned from a sell-out tour of Japan.

Their most recent album, last year's The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed, won rave reviews and even featured guest vocals by Justin Hawkins, frontman of super-trendy rockers the Darkness.

You can see The Wildhearts at Southampton University on Saturday, April 17. For more information go to www.thewildhearts. com