Black Hats were in the studio last month with Sam Williams – he of production credits including Supergrass, Plan B and The Go! Team amongst a trillion others – pulling together new recordings for their next single. The release, which will be named ‘Kick In The Doors’, will be out in autumn, and the band will release rough mixes of the tracks onto their website over the coming weeks.

If you’re an artistic type, the band are running a competition to choose cover artwork for the release. They’re welcoming submissions from anyone and everyone, and the winner will be chosen after the closing date of 15 July. If that winner is you, you’ll not only get your design out there in the big bad wide world, along with full credit, but Black Hats will throw in a ton of their merchandise alongside free entry for you and a friend to any gigs they’re playing in autumn.

All submissions will be posted onto the Black Hats’ Facebook page. If you’re up for it, send your artwork to the band directly, or hop on over to the Black Hats website for more information and a postal address for three-dimensional, physical artworks.