It doesn’t take long for 4ft Fingers to get a positive reaction. In a world that is mourning the loss of Green Day to Levellers-style middle age pap, bands like this should thrive. As long as your record collection is not alphabetical, you could file them next to NOFX, Snuff, and Rancid. Thankfully, although there is undoubtedly a hefty American skate-punk influence, 4ft Fingers have Oi!-style punk choruses aplenty. They’re an energetic band, with cheeky banter to match Mr Modest, Chris Martin of Coldplay. With a new album on the way, and only the likes of Blink 182 to go up against in the pop ‘punk’ market, 4ft Fingers could triumph.

Glueball should also be filed in your punk section, but alongside that period marked 1979-81. Totally akin to The Exploited in sound, they make an instant impression, and keep up the pace over the next forty minutes. Problem is it’s only one pace, and it’s only interesting for so long. Perhaps a short, totally punk 15-minute set would be an idea. It’d be better suited to keeping the punk credentials intact, and stop everyone from looking at their watches. I’m not telling them how to do their job; I’m just offering alternatives.

And so to Medulla Nocte. Touring their new album, ‘Dying From The Inside’, it would be fair to say that Medulla Nocte are perhaps one of the most extreme bands these shores have produced since Napalm Death. To describe them as an updated Napalm would be a disservice though; Medulla Nocte have a sound very much their own. Backed by a band producing relentless white noise, Paul Catten’s voice literally tears out of the PA. Like Q the Winged Serpent armed to the teeth with sand blasters, Medulla Nocte are simply phenomenal. You know that scene at the end of Raiders of The Lost Ark where the faces of the evil Nazi scum melt off? Just like the audience at a Nocte gig, except the presence of Nazi scum obviously. For those of you quaking at the idea of a metal revival, Nocte are here to show you there are metal bands worth listening to. For those of you garbed in ‘ironic’ glittered Metal t-shirts, isn’t it about time to go to a gig and find out what’s going to be the latest thing in 2022?

Allin Pratt