Wolf Eyes @ The Venue

This Detriot based noise mongering trio create sounds to make your ears bleed and head throb, and from their onstage antics, they clearly have a shitload of fun performing live. Utilising instruments including a one-string guitar, radios and drum machines, this was harsh, intense music, made all the more nightmarish by Nate Young's screeching vocals. Also playing tonight were Radioactive Man and a DJ set by Mogwai, but Wolf Eyes stole the show for themselves. Half the crowd hated it, while the other went fucking nuts; lapping up this soundtrack to a post-apocalyptic world. There are very few people making music with this sort of intensity – it's packed with real emotion unlike so much of the soulless corporately produced hoo-ha in the charts. The only downside to this set was its brevity, as the 45mins felt more like 15. [Xavier Toby]