In a Wavves-esque fashion, minus the LSD-induced breakdown, the Sunshine state’s Bleeding Knees Club were a duo of fast-paced surfy rock songs. Though sounding slightly repetitive, the get up-and-go nature of their tunes was highly attractive for those who wanted a dance. Played out between Alex Wall’s duelling drums and the lone metallic guitar of Jordan Malane, their tunes were skeletal though made a fast-tearing racket.

Wolf and Cub has held a special place in my heart for a very long time, and with the addition of Wade Keighran, ex-The Scare, on bass I’m more excited than ever to watch this band grow. Marvin Hammond and Joel Carey settled behind their twin drum kits, while the two men in the front, Keighran and Joel Byrne armed themselves with their bass and guitar, respectively, before opening with a new track created by a bold atmospheric mesh of bass and spacious guitar. Said to be the opener for an impending album, it did a damn good job of waking up the unusual mix of audience. Though the songs sometimes became lost in a mix of feedback and monitor fuzz, it was still exciting to watch the battling drums thunder along behind Byrne and Keighran, feeding off each other’s energy and inciting a similar response from the crowd drawn around their feet.

With the slotting in of some new numbers, the band naturally played through a set of favourite from across their debut Vessels and their 2009 release Science and Sorcery, such as ‘Seven Sevens’, ‘What Are They Running From?’, ‘One to the Other’ and of course ‘This Mess’. Despite my seeing this band live numerous times, the addition of Keighran brings a dark, slightly punk appeal to the tunes. The band has moved on from being penned as a simple psychedelic act, into far more un-peg-able territory.