A SELF-DUBBED "controversial" Colchester band is set to play a homecoming show at a popular city music venue this month. 

Fresh from touring the country as members of Dingus Khan, Reverend Matt Simpkins and Ben Brown are preparing to return to Colchester as Pissabed Prophet.

Pissabed Prophet will take to the Three Wise Monkeys stage on Thursday evening to perform songs from their new mini-album, Apple.

Apple’s colourful tunes explore the peaks and troughs of life lived fulsomely with illness, and celebrate the joy of creativity and friendship.

The headliners will be supported by London’s My Fat Pony and Colchester’s Queen Dogs.

The band's latest show follows the release of several singles and a debut album.

The group's first single featured the sound of an MRI machine in which Rev Simpkins had been scanned as part of his cancer treatment, which received international news coverage.

Allegedly, the BBC held a number of meetings to decide whether the band’s name was suitable for broadcast before the band pointed out the word Pissabed is an East Anglian term for a dandelion.

The band then decided to write their second single, Telling the Bees entirely in Essex-Suffolk dialect. 

Established as champions for East Anglian dialect, beekeeping, and the work of radiographers, the band released its self-titled debut album in July of this year.

The music press praised the band's self-titled debut album released in July this year for its soaring Beachboys-like harmonies and raucous arrangements.

The album's opening track, Waspdrunk, was penned by Reverend Simpkins on the day he found out he had stage IV cancer.

Tickets cost £7.50 in advance or £9 on the door. 

For more information head to threewisemonkeyscolchester.com.