Manchester reviews

The band wears unfeasibly tight trousers, the lead singer brandishes the mike stand as if it were a phallic symbol and the songs are about legs and thighs and making love like a man.

The gig at the Apollo was sold out and had been for some time, proving that music of the "meat and two veg" variety - that's to say, unpretentious - will always be on the menu.

A deafening combination of very loud guitars and screechy vocals roused the largely middle-aged and respectable crowd from its post-Sunday lunch slumber.

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