Let’s dispense with the urge to use any number of cliche one liners to describe The Young Knives gig at The Haunt last Friday and let the performance speak for itself. The trio’s performance nudged them out of their comfort zone and pleasingly into our ears.

Possessing razor sharp riffs and a brilliantly dry sense of humour, Young Knives know their way around a pop song, and their Buzzcockian urgency has been given a dose of steroids judging by their beefed up live sound, especially House of Lords’ nostril-quivering bass.

Old favourites ‘Weekends and Bleakdays’ and ‘Terra Firma’ are rollicking good fun but new tracks from their latest album ‘Ornaments from the Silver Arcade’ show that the band still seeks new boundaries and never deliver what you quite expect.

Young Knives at The Haunt
Friday 22 July

WORDS BY JACK PRESCOTT