So its the second time I’ve seen Alex Dingley Band… The songs are starting to stick in my cranium – Dingley takes the Pixies loud and quiet formular and applied a cutsey playfulness to it. It helps that many of the lyrical swerves are horridly catchy, and even if some of the lyrics sometimes don’t have immediate coherance you may find yourself rehearsing them on the way back to that dome you call your home.

I don’t get Volunteer Butler Scheme, really. There’s nothing exactly wrong with them, their haircuts don’t follow any particular scene or weather pattern and their shambolic appearance is pretty enigmatic. Maybe cus its at the end of a long day for me, but VBS totally failed to move me. There’s a fair bit of electronics here – i think I counted 3 keyboards. But for all that they sound strikingly traditional and pop, not a whole number of miles away from something like, god, the Beautiful South. No amount of repeated samples at the end of your set can hide the folksy angst song writing.

There’s nothing wrong with any of this, and they seem to be very consumate and professional, but I’m a trifle bored by it all. And if you are going to annoy us with noise or freeze on the stage for 20 seconds, do something exciting enough to warrant such stage drama. Otherwise it just looks like posing. And it did.