The autumn season at Cannock’s Prince of Wales Centre has been announced with ’60s legends The Searchers and former Ultravox frontman Midge Ure among the star turns.

The Searchers, who shot to fame with hits such as Sweets For My Sweet, Needles and Pins and Don’t Throw Your Love Away will be appearing on October 25.

Ure, who helped organise Band Aid with Bob Geldof, was famously kept off the number one spot in the pop charts by Joe Dolce’s Shaddap You Face, with his classic tune Vienna. Fans can catch him at the Church Street venue on October 14.

Australian comic singer/songwriter Kevin ‘Bloody’ Wilson has built up a loyal following all over the world despite a lack of television and radio exposure due to the explicit nature of his act. He will turn the air blue on November 5, while more wholesome family entertainment will be provided by helium-voiced comedian Joe Pasquale on October 6.

On September 23, Burton Big Band will entertain. It was formed in the 1960s by ex-professional trumpeter, the late Les Coates, with the idea of keeping alive swing music which was being sidelined by the advent of guitar groups. Today, the band draws on players from a wider area, including Cannock, Penkridge and Walsall and an age range from teenagers to octogenarians.

Another local act who will grace the stage, on November 4, is popular Penkridge organist Jean Martyn.

Her charity show, in aid of the Midland Air Ambulance and the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, near Lichfield.