Coming in suitably lean and mean, carrying not an ounce of fat, this three-piece have released a three-track EP which captures perfectly their refreshingly direct, feelgood approach. Opening track Home Cooked Cookin' is my personal fave, all spiky guitars and equally spiky lyrics, music that discards the much over-used indie swagger for a more wild-eyed, hperactive skank. And it's all so quintessentially English, like The Kinks would possibly have sounded in 2008, laced with a little Undertones. But then on Fire When Ready, which boasts a killer bass line, and Blood Stains On My White Hands, there's also a pleasingly stateside bar-room boogie feel to proceedings, making for a heady cocktail. Essentially this is the sound of a band who know what they want and what they're doing, having the time of their lives and imploring us to join them © Dayle Crutchlow Coventry Telegraph Up next were King Hermit, a punk rock band from Coventry. Their version of Bond's theme tune totally set the tone of the gig. The lead singer's throat scratching vocals worked excellently with the noticeably Beatles influenced guitar riffs that pounded every song. © Esh Capelo Coventry CV6 (Telegraph)