Show of Hands’ BBC award-winning song Arrogance Ignorance and Greed (AIG) features on a new “mood of the nation” CD to be launched in London this week.

* BEST DUO* BEST ORIGINAL SONG voted by Radio 2 Folk Awards 2012

The tirade against bankers and bonuses, MPs and expenses, penned by band frontman Steve Knightley won Best Original Song at the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and now features on the album We’re All In It Together, which marks 80 years of The Morning Star newspaper.

The 33 track double CD has been curated by singer songwriter Michael Weston-King, and will be officially released on Red Planet Records on July 2. CD1 is themed “Protest” and CD2 “Survive”.

Recalling David Cameron’s much-quoted phrase at the 2010 Tory conference, it is described as “an album of songs reflecting the current mood of the nation” and “a gathering of like minds and eclectic voices”. The Morning Star says: “It features some of Britain’s most renowned artists who have come together to ‘Protest and Survive’ in the face of Con-Dem attacks and global recession.”

Among other artists appearing on the album are Thea Gilmore, The Destroyers, Eddi Reader, Southern Tenant Folk Union, Kathryn Williams, Clive Gregson and Christine Collister, Reg Meuross, Boo Hewerdine and the late Jackie Leven.

The CD will be launched in at London Elixir Bar on Thursday (14) with some live performances by featured artists and is available online HERE or on 07780 220389. All proceeds will go to support the publication Morning Star online.co.uk.

Steve Knightley has also penned a song called We’re All in It Together which he sang along with band mates Phil Beer and Miranda Sykes in Hyde Park as part of the 2011 March for the Alternative Rally.

Hotfoot from a fourth sell out at the Royal Albert Hall Show of Hands are performing at some 23 UK festivals and events this summer at locations including an Olympic seaside town, a 13^th century Kent castle and a Yorkshire brewery.

On June 23 they will headline the 3^rd world music HOME Festival at Dartington Hall  while they will also appear at Weymouth’s Bayside Festival (July 30) - during a two week event being staged in the Sailing Olympics host town.

On Saturday, July 7 they host their own 15^th signature festival in Dorset’s glorious Abbotsbury Sub Tropical Gardens on the Jurassic Coast with arguably their best ever line-up including Jim Moray, Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin, Jamie Smith’s Mabon and Lucy Ward, winner of the Horizon (Best Newcomer) title at the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

All live dates listed at www.showofhands.co.uk