The Young Knives @ Relentless Garage

Many thanks to Time Out for the free tickets to this one! Though this was part of the 'Next Big Thing' series of gigs, The Young Knives have been going for a few years now, and the fact that they are each year tipped as 'the next big thing' has not been lost on them; frontman Henry Dartnell revealed that this has long been a bit of an injoke for the band. Dartnell (there though his wife was due to give birth the same day) and brother James - known as 'The House of Lords' - provided much entertainment throughout with their onstage banter, much of it centred round the fact that they look like they've walked off the set of The Big Bang Theory.

Despite the fact that I was at the gig with teetotaler Marc Tinson, meaning I was on soft drinks myself (a show of solidarity with my disabled friend), the gig was really good, the songs upbeat and frenzied, although you could tell there were a lot of competition winners there as there wasn't much reaction from the audience.

There were a lot of new songs, all impressive, but the highlights were the oldies, including opener 'Terra Firma', 'Up All Night', 'Dyed In The Wool' and closer 'Loughborough Suicide' which came the closest to whipping the crowd into a foot tapping frenzy. Good gig, shit crowd, here's hoping 2011 will be the Young Knives year!