Cypress Hill @ O2 Academy, 16 Jun

A week shy of a decade since they last rolled (and blazed) through Glasgow; the Cypress Hill we see tonight is shorn of the rock band experience that made their Barrowlands appearance a treat. They’re also without chief ambience architect DJ Muggs – extending his sabbatical from recent promotional photography and most of new LP Rise Up’s writing credits – leaving B-Real and Sen Dog to party around the possessed Latino bongo rhythms of Eric Bobo and the tune of a DJ who barely embellishes on the basic backing tracks of those ‘Killa’ Hill classics.

But they’re all here: the thugged out trilogy of Hand On The Pump, When The Shit Goes Down and Lick A Shot are reasons to attend on their own, though the Academy’s cavernous depth doesn’t do a bit of it justice. Waving a suspect cigarillo in the air like he just don’t know there’s a smoking ban, B-Real eggs his sparring partner into Cheech n’ Chong theatrics to the tune of I Wanna Get High – all the go-ahead an already half-baked crowd needs to claw a crooked doobie from their pocket. Us? We Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That – not on a school night, homie. [Bob Morton]