Qui @ King Tut's, 20 Nov

After shunning major label interest for most of their career, it took a split single with Nirvana to drag David Yow and his fellow noise rockers in Jesus Lizard quite literally kicking and screaming into the upper echelons of the UK Top 40. As moments in rock 'n' roll history go, this was just the latest in a slew of bizarre mainstream infiltrations by the alternative movement of the day.

Now, in an age where it takes an NME campaign just to get a Sex Pistols song on the radio, it seems even more unlikely that the dastardly front man's new band Qui will be emulating that same strange success. But never mind the bollocks: Yow's got other things on his mind since he recently made a fulltime return to music after an eight year sabbatical. "There were some weird rumours going around: I had read that I was a murderer, I had read that I was a junkie and I had read that I was dead."

Playing their fierce amalgam of swamp blues, punk and doom metal at Tut's this month, Qui prove that Yow's very much alive and still kicking. Reports from gigs to date have been of midgets throwing golf balls at the band and a demented female 'fan' punching Yow in the head until he bled on stage at a gig in Texas earlier in the year - clear reminders of the kind of nonsense that only this man can provoke.