CityLife

Marry Another + Sex Education + A Foreign Town + Monkeys In Love

AS one of four unsigned bands playing at Night and Day, Liverpool electro rock outfit Sex Education (pictured) are diamonds in the dirt.

Like them, I too may have been born 30 miles west along the M62, but it's much more than local pride that makes me fall in lust with their sounds.

Their set strives endlessly along an upwards learning curve from the glam rock dance track Twisting And Shaking to the spectacularly histrionic guitar solo of People Are Tearing At The Seams, reaching its climax with the sacrilegious choral verses and raw synthesisers of Turn On.

Songs like these are the most important facts of life that kids should be taught in primary school before they fall victim to the contagious chart-topping plague of Pussycat Dolls and Katy Perry.

Monkeys In Love, the first band to take to the stage, are the best of the rest with their slow motion post-punk which is shamelessly indebted to the Mancunian musical stereotypes of Happy Mondays and The Fall.

A Foreign Town, all the way from the exotic lands of Bolton, look just like one North East band by the name of The Futureheads and sound just like another by the name of Maxïmo Park.

Meanwhile, Marry Another almost don't merit a mention for their parochial acoustic folk which in the eyes of the law would surely be considered as sufficient grounds for divorce.

In the aftermath of In The City it seemed as if the rock 'n' roll rejects had hidden underground for another twelve months at least, but tonight they were out in force.

Needless to say, if tonight's show was some kind of special indie episode of X Factor, Simon Cowell and his fellow judges would be less than impressed.

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