LEDBURY-based punk band, Bleeding Hearts have two new albums out next week.

Politics and Love, Sex and Understanding features 15 new tracks while Time, Change and Continuity is a compilation released to mark the band's tenth anniversary.

The music is described as punk-energised power pop and has earned the band a huge following in Germany and a smaller, but loyal, following in Britain. The band has played to a crowd of 5,000 in Glaston-bury, toured extensively in Canada, America and Germany and appeared with top rock band The Darkness at the German equivalent of Glastonbury last year.

The albums are available at gigs or through www.bleedinghearts.co.uk. The band plays a charity gig at The Herdsman in Widemarsh Street, Hereford, on Saturday, November 19, in aid of Worcester's hostel for the homeless, St Paul's.