Missed Evils. Regulation long story. But here’s another goon with a laptop onstage, and this one’s mixing Daft Punk with The Kills, and everyone’s ignoring him. So begins First Gig Of 2009: with Love Gadgets Hate Gizmos, a man with tidy hair and a nice sticker on his Apple. Hard to be a viable stage presence when you’re essentially a T-shirt moving a mouse, but LGHG (I’m going to call him Ken) has a naive musical approach that I kind of like: propulsive, chunky beats knitting disparate sections together, with snippets of well known tunes at fairly regular intervals. Does it take more balls to drop in ‘I Feel Love’ than to keep it obscure? I dunno, but here are some friends’ suggestions on how to improve the stage show: a spangly yellow waistcoat, a puppet show, being on fire. Come on Ken.

Course, go to any vaguely hip cafe these days and there’ll be some ponce with a laptop. Gallops! have brought two from Wrexham, and slotted them into their nascent, atomised post rock, ripe for a local audience, primed by a couple of years of Truckers Of Husk worship, to goggle at nosily. In the busy math field they plough, Gallops! songs are especially fidgety, typically hopping between brief sections made of a few guitar or electronic notes repeated and layered. In fact, in their glitchy loops the band edge closer to malfunctioning machine music, albeit with a man in a bobble hat fret-tapping over it. It’s a scattershot, promising set: youth and potential and great drumming, connecting more often than not, transcending at least a couple of times. Then they finish, and some knob leaves early and writes it all down.