THE legendary performance poet Attila the Stockbroker will be live at the Booth Hall on Sunday as part of his national tour of poetry and music.

Launched into public consciousness by John Peel in the early 1980s, performance poet, musician, journalist and political activist Attila the Stockbroker, initially the support act for punk bands including The Jam, The Alarm and New Model Army, has spent 35 years touring the world. Having performed more than 3,000 gigs in 24 countries, releasing 40 records and seven books of poetry along the way, he pauses here to relate his life story, a tale of single-minded determination to earning his living, without compromise, doing what he loves in the context of the ever-changing, increasingly corporate-minded politics of the last five decades.

Attila once turned down an offer of shows in North Korea (only because he was already booked to tour Canada) has stood in for Donny Osmond at a gig, been supported by the Manic Street Preachers - and DJ legend Steve Lamacq was his roadie for a while and he's appeared at every Glastonbury Festival since 1983.

Hereford United fans of old may well remember him for being a vocal supporter of lower and non-league football from his previous visit to Hereford in the late 1990s.

Hereford City Centric's The Underground Revolution presents Attila the Stockbroker at the Booth Hall on Sunday at 8pm. Tickets on the door.