Last week we introduced you to Leeds' glamourous Dead Disco. This week marks the release of their twisted debut single, The Treatment, and of course their very first gig in London at Club Motherfucker at The Garage in Highbury. Playing alongside the band will be upandcoming Glaswegian band Bricolage who, we hear, are worth going to see themselves! Not only that but Bis remnants, Data Panik, will be hotfooting it from their own gig......

You know when you hear a new band and you immediately love their songs. You wait and wait and finally you see them live and it's all ruined. Live they were absolutely rubbish. Well screw all that, because we finally saw Dead Disco live on Saturday night in Blackpool and they blew us away. Tight, professional and with one of the most impressive front people we've ever seen, we stomped around the dancefloor like......

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Al Jarreau (sort of): We'll walk by night, we'll shoot you by day! Moonlighting strangers... who just worked for the met on the way. Ahh, Maddie and David - slamming doors, getting stuck on top of hot air balloons, miscarrying babies... What. A. Show. Of course it completely overshadowed 1984's Cover Up to the point that most of you won't remember it at all. Think Remington Steele with a little......

Foremost there was Spinal Tap - the good natured and fucking hilarious jab at rock's pomp and general ridiculousness that probably inspired as many bands as it took the piss out of. Better yet it ensured that anything of value was thereafter always turned up to 11. Actually predating the Tap by a year was The Comic Strip mob with their own version of something very metal in the form of Bad News. Vim......