FORMER Rose Tattoo frontman Angry Anderson will contest the seat of Throsby for The Nationals at the September 14 federal election.

The seat, on the NSW south coast, is a safe Labor electorate currently held by backbencher Stephen Jones.

Nationals chairman Niall Blair described their new high-profile candidate as "your man on the street".

"I think any criticism of Angry from Labor will be quite instructive about their attitude to what he represents - their traditional blue-collar supporters," Mr Blair said.

"He's not always been as politically correct as he could have been but he has a good heart and a deep sense of right and wrong, two things the Labor Party have lost along the way."

Originally published as Federal election turns Angry