This young four piece are centred around the animated tenor sax playing of Pete Wareham. Backed up by a band including Tom Cawley on a keyboard and acclaimed drummer Seb Rochford.

As their name suggests, the original starting point for these guys was the songs of Hendrix. A year on from their first LP 'Camoflage' and they have moved well on from the musical position their name suggests. Driven by Wareham's slightly gawky swaying figure, they soon charged head on into the thoughtful ("beard stroking") niceties of jazz - demolishing them with likes of 'Iggy' and 'Ludvig Van Ramone' - balancing power-jazz with rock influences.

They were, however, still greeted with largely sofa-seated enthusiasm by the audience - no sign of the more energetic and passionate response their jazz-punk onslaught should have inspired - weird! At times Cawley's versatile sounding keyboard combined with driven funk-psychedelia to produce grooves verging on the same kind of precarious improvised power The Bays often achieve. Wareham also made full use of the sort of electronic processes normally reserved for guitarists - conjuring up wah-wah sax, distorted rumbles and freakish delayed shrieks.

There was rarely anything incoherent or un-listenable about them though - challenging perhaps, but not inaccessible, and plenty of cobwebs were blown away in the process. So, why wasn't everyone on their feet and jumping about to it?

John Armstrong