Test Icicles @ The Venue, 14th January

When a band is so indescribable in words, how can you even begin to proceed with a gig review? Should you even bother trying? You see West London trio Test Icicles provide an experience you must absorb for yourself before you can comprehend it. They mix up styles with a rude relentlessness and have the gung-ho attitude to match. Imagine a cacophonous inferno of metal-riffage, disco drum-machine beats, sampled machineguns, pre-recorded pounding base-lines, math-core outbursts and electronic noise and you'll get a feel of the concept. Until they rape our city next time, all you can do is gleen their Domino debut LP 'For Screening Purposes Only' for answers...and wait. [Chris Nordeng]