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Kong

A very, very strange band indeed. The success of their set is going to be almost entirely dependent on what time they're playing - the later the better, for if the crowd are as smashed as singer Magpie is inevitably going to be, the audience will be a sea of bemused, just-the-right-side-of-terrified faces. If not the audience will be a sea of bemused, the-wrong-side-of-terrified-faces. Debut album 'Snake Magnet' was a torrent of squeals, squawks, abrasive guitars and pummelling percussion. It near tore your ears off. To use a potentially rubbish NME style analogy, it was as if Shellac had recorded an album after a death-defying ketamine binge. Live, this is only exacerbated. You should be genuinely excited at the prospect of hearing 'Leather Penny' and 'Wet Your Knives' in the relative confines of The Cave yet the possibility of it being just too weird for most is a niggling thought at the back of the mind. Go and see if you're intrigued but if you're not a fan, don't say we didn't warn you. This writer most certainly is though.