The best gig I've been to in a long while. Wet Dog are an all-girl three-piece playing minimal, atonal punkpop with a scratchy guitar that rarely breaks out into full chords, a meaty, trebly bass and drums which alternately pound and shuffle along.

Country Teasers are truly terrifying. Utterly mesmerising music, the kind Pavement were too scared to make, with a frontman who takes on the persona of a misanthropic bigot and snarls his way through an hour of pure brilliance. I wanted to sing along to the songs but the words are just too offensive. Rest assured the lyrics are not to be taken seriously, and the songs' chauvinistic and hate-filled narrators are mocked, showing up the irrationality of misogyny, homophobia and racism by presenting us with a frontman character who revels in all of these things.

Country Teasers are more intelligent, funny, frightening and addictive than any band around at the moment. I think the current line-up all come from the south of England but the band are signed to an American label, although some of their early stuff was released by London's Guided Missile Records. You can get some of their CDs in the record shops over here for a reasonable price, though. They rarely play in England as most of their fanbase is in the USA so make sure you catch them next time.