Cult rock band The Stranglers are preparing to visit Lincoln as part of their huge worldwide tour.

The Guildford foursome helped play a vital role in the rise of punk and are expected to delve into their mammoth back catalogue for their Greatest Hits gig at the Engine Shed on November 6.

The band's career has spanned four decades and in that time they have enjoyed 24 top 40 hits, including Golden Brown, No More Heroes and Peaches and are famed for many other songs including Hanging Around.

After visiting Lincoln the current line-up of Dave Greenfield on keyboards, Jet Black on drums, Baz Warne on guitars/vocals and Jean-Jacques Burnel on bass will travel to Australia before touring round Europe.

Steve Hawkins, who runs the Bivouac in Broadgate and is a former tour manager for Dinosaur Jr, said The Stranglers were still a huge musical influence today.

"The Stranglers are a very good band and they are the most successful, in terms of sales, that came out of the punk movement," he said.

After forming in 1974 the group based themselves in a Guildford pub owned by drummer Jet Black and later toured with legendary American punks The Ramones and Patti Smith.

Victoria Simpson, marketing and events manager at the Engine Shed, said she was pleased to have the band returning to the venue.

"It is the second time they have played at the Engine Shed," she said.

"It's another band that people from Lincolnshire probably didn't think they would see in their back yard."

Tickets cost £23 and the gig is for over-18s only.

For more on this story, see Monday's Lincolnshire Echo.