YORK’S wild punk rocker, Stevie Ze Suicide, has signed a management and record deal as he looks to bounce back from his conviction for racist abuse at York Magistrates earlier this month.

Stevie will be managed by Hastings company Tam Management while London company Little London Records, owned and run by Mike and Terri Harris, will issue his records.

“Both companies have a long-standing reputation for managing many top acts, and now that I’m on Little London Records, a single and video will be released every month until the album comes out,” he says.

The first is a four-track EP featuring his version of John Lennon’s Give Peace A Chance and further covers of Eve Of Destruction and Universal Soldier, plus Stevie’s own composition, Freedom In A Modern World.

“It was released on March 1 for Music Against Racism, ironically the same day that I appeared in court on a charge of making a racist comment outside my home to a Turkish gentleman delivering leaflets.”

The 58-year-old former UK Subs drummer was charged under his real name, Steve Roberts, of Fern Street, The Groves. He pleaded guilty to racial abuse and was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs.

In court, his solicitor, LeeAnne RobinsHicks, said that in the circumstances of Stevie promoting music against racism, “it had been difficult for him to acknowledge he has committed an offence of this sort; it is so out of character for him”.

Post court hearing, normal Stevie Ze Suicide service is being resumed. The Ze Suicide Radio Show, online at wickedspinsradio.org, will be going weekly from April, broadcast on Sundays from 4pm to 6pm with guest interviews, sketches and requests.

Meanwhile, he could be bracing himself for another brush with the authorities.

“I upset Health & Safety rules recently by sawing a guitar in half with a chainsaw during a video, but it’s a stunt I intend to repeat live during my Noize Revolution shows later this year.”