Bev Bevan: What I was up to in May

Sunday May 1st
Gig for The Bev Bevan Band at the Metropole Hotel in Birmingham. A bonus for the audience when I introduced on to the stage towards the end of our set, surprise guest on lead vocals and rhythm guitar , my old mate Jasper Carrott, who really got them going.

Tuesdays May 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st.
At the splendid "Mailbox" in Birmingham to transmit live the "Bev Bevan and Jimmy Franks show" on BBC WM 95.6, which goes out every Tuesday evening between 10pm and midnight. You can also listen to the show at anytime via your computer by listening on BBC I player - just click on BBC WM and go to "Listen again".

Sunday May 22nd
"Survival Sunday" in the Premiership and my team, Wolverhampton Wanderers, somehow managed to avoid relegation by the skin of their teeth! With just 3 minutes left they were technically down until Stephen Hunt's brilliant goal kept them up and sent local rivals Birmingham City down instead. I texted Wolves manager Mick McCarthy saying that I had never before witnessed such drama in fifty years of watching football.

Sundays 1st, 8th, 15th,22nd , 29th.
Every Sunday, you'll find two columns - "Bev Bevan's Rock'n'Roll Diaries" and "Bevan's Heaven" (CD reviews), in the "Sunday Mercury".
My favourite albums for the month of May, that I suggest you check out , are singer/songwriter Teddy Thompson's latest album "Bella" on the Verve label, The Steve Miller Band's "Let your hair down" (Roadrunner), Paul Simon's "So beautiful or so what" (Hear Music), Within Temptation's "The Unforgiving (Roadrunner) and "The London American Label Year by Year - 1963 (Ace).