After effortlessly wiping the floor with big names Tiger Army, Deadline and King Kurt last year, letting THE GRIT loose as curtain-callers is like tying a red rag on Lemmy, a quart of Jack Daniels to a bull and letting the twain tussle.

With yards of ale for larynxes, they slice through a vodka-evaporating set with the force of an ice-hockey team disputing final score. Like good natured bears politely stealing your cornflakes with an ear for a tune the size o’ the toon, Fear And Consumption swaggers into mid-set masterpiece, I Came Out The Womb An Angry **** (featuring Metal style audience splitting sing-a-longs).

Meanwhile, closing time streetlamp lurch Whoever You Are make this beer-quaffing baton-race a brilliant punk and psychobilly bath in noxious bonhomie that would make the most introverted plead for indulgence.

Utterly captivating, with immense stage presence, character, intensity, plus a crafty finesse beneath the stage antics. Tipping the hat of hyperbole aside, this will go down as ‘one of those gigs’. Call it ‘Star Power’ but THE GRIT possess it in spades, pitchforks, trowels, wheelbarrows and quite possibly flymos too. Phenomenal. The world and his wife await.

1. The Ones
2. Love Thy Neighbour
3. Misery
4. Mayday
5. Fear And Consumption
6. I Came Out The Womb An Angry Cunt
7. Stuck In Streatham
8. A Geordies Song
9. Execution
10. Surrender
11. No Grit
12. Mr. Minto
13. Not Gonna Get Me Out Of Here
14. Whoever You Are