Live music listings: May 2006

Doors 8.30
£5 via WeGotTickets, £6 on the door

Headliners The Priscillas are “joining the dots between Hollywood and Holloway. All bubblegum boogie and juke-joint jive, their gigs are celebrations of glamour, glitz, and above all, good hair… All hail The Priscillas, queens of the comb age.” [i-D Magazine]
Named after The King's bride and looking like they've stepped out of a Russ Meyer film, The Priscillas combine '50s pin-up stylings with the excess of '60s garage pop, '70s glam, and a sound that screams NOW! They fuse The Ramones with the Shangri-Las and belt out songs with the hook laden pop-rock immediacy of Joan Jett. All coated with lyrics that bounce with references to zombies, brain surgeons, outer space, super heroes, city boys, and food.
"Despite the fact that The Priscillas look like gum-chewing, leather-clad bad girls, their cracking debut single is near-perfect power-pop." [NME]
With a long limbed feisty front girl and an energy to fixate the masses, main support Royal Treatment Plant are more than eye candy with grit. Think the Yeah Yeah Yeahs meets Blondie fused with an indie-punk-pop soul full of despair, freedom and love.
"Royal Treatment Plant are future stars in the making, every song on their debut EP bristling with genius pop attitude and hook laden guitar abuse - Bruised, brilliant, vital and fresh, Royal Treatment Plant will make your life better." [UK Music Search]
First on are "math-rock meets alt-country" Lynch Rider Lulu. Formed in a dingy East London rehearsal room just over a year ago, guitar-band they create music that is dark, hypnotic and edgy. United in their love of a great rif and a slightly sinister sentiment, listening to Lynch Rider Lulu is like watching a good old-fashioned cowboy movie, while peeling onions in a small caravan perched on a cliff-top. In the rain.