Andy Hazel, Journalist

Dead Heads Come To Dinner and Glam Campbell are closing highlights in a night full of revelations, and one the packed room rewards with deafening cheers.

Dallas and this gig make a strong case for The Native Cats being one of the most interesting and strikingly original bands in the country, though it’s highly unlikely they’d give a shit about any sort of assessment like that.

Closing with the rousing 14 and encoring with Brand New Song, it’s the energy and bravado they bring to the standard rock chord progressions they spin through that so impresses, and still leaves the sense that the best is yet to come.

Who knew there were this many ways to be simultaneously dapper and sexual?

Three bands with a theme, captured at exactly the right time; tonight is a gig for the time capsule.