Who knew that four middle-classed lads from Reading could rival Daft Punk in making electro-clash hybrids of pure dancefloor gold? Well Virgin Records, Bloc Party and Hadouken! to name a few.

With a plethora of high profile tours, TV appearances, a frontman shoved firmly into the NME cool list and the highly coveted Guardian award for "worst band name 2007", things are certainly rosy in the Does It Offend You, Yeah? camp.

Shunning the "new-rave" stereotypes and placing themselves firmly in the box marked "Fan-bleedin'-tastic" these lads put the Klaxons and the army of day-glo clad wanna-bands to shame.

On this dreary winter night, in a tiny sweatbox under a Shoreditch club they put this method firmly into action, playing a short but sweet set of five of their best songs and one especially 80's tinged cover of Devo's Whip It.

With a verbal assault on the eardrums, James Rushent (Bass) jumps into the crowd and continues to play opener Doomed Now until the song builds up into a crescendo of noise.

Unfortunately, Crowd favourite Lets Make Out lacks that panache live that Sebastien Grainger, formerly of Death From Above 1979 fame bought to the proceedings.
This along with the shortness of the set is the only down side to this evening.

As closer, We Are Rockstars, bursts through the speakers in all it's glory the crowd are whipped into a frenzy, arms flailing, mouths screaming the chorus, not at all bothered that their £90 Toni and Guy hairdo's are getting wrecked.

Finishing by trashing their equipment before walking off stage, they certainly seem to have the rockstar show down to a tee.

Tonight’s set justified that this is more than the sound of just hype alone. This is the sound of UK electrotrash at its best. Britain’s greatest hope for standing up against the hordes of French electro outfits and kicking them into shape.