A motorbike-mad Harrow musician is using the know-how he learnt playing with his hit 80s band to launch a pop protest song against parking fees.

Andy Kyriacou, from South Harrow, was the drummer in Modern Romance, which hit the charts with Everybody Salsa in 1981 and followed it up with dance favourite Ay ay ay ay Moosey.

Fronted by Geoff Deane and Michael J Mullins, the band remained in the charts for a few years with its 'unique trumpet sound' provided by John Du Prez, but success was short lived and the band's 1985 album, Burn, was not well received.

Fifty-year-old Andy has re-formed Modern Romance with a brand new line-up and his latest venture is a protest pop video for the 'No to bike fees' campaign, which calls for the total withdrawal of parking taxes levied on motorcyclists and scooter riders, and a full refund of all fees paid to date by bikers to Westminster Council.

The song is a variation of the Amy Winehouse smash, Rehab. It opens: "They try to make us pay for parking, I say no, no, no, say they need the dosh but we know it's tosh, saying no no no."

Andy said: "I am a keen biker, and I own two cruisers, so the bike parking campaign is close to me personally.

"However, I became involved on a more professional note when the organiser of the protest, Warren Djanogly, thought the fact that I was the singer from Modern Romance would add some kind of celeb status to the campaign, and so asked me to do a short video for their site, giving my views on the subject.

"Following on from this, an idea for a theme song was suggested, and Warren thought that using Amy Winehouse's excellent song Rehab, would be fantastic, giving the bikers a sing-along part on the 'no no no' chorus."

The video features pensioners, angry bikers dressed in high visibility jackets chanting and Andy cruising around Westminster.

Modern Romance has also agreed to do a free headline gig at Bikers in Paradise, an event in aid of Herts Air Ambulance, organised by Hertfordshire Biking Magazine, at Paradise Wildlife Park, Brox-bourne, on April 26, with the fee donated to the festival's charities.

Fans might be seeing more of Andy in the near future, as the band is playing one-off gigs with a tour possibly in the offing for May or June.

Looking back fondly on his 80s fame, Andy said: "It seems like a wonderful dream - I still sometimes have difficulty believing that when people refer to the 80s and the great times, music, hairstyles, fashions, we are included in that category. It really was a memorable time, and to be part of that history is an honour."

See the full music video here .

You can go online and visit www.notobikeparkingfees.com for information about the campaign and www.bikersinparadise.com to find out about Bikers In Paradise.