Lola Colt / ILL @ Soup Kitchen 14 July

"Theresa May, Theresa May / She’s not your friend if you are gay / Theresa May, Theresa May / Giving the best jobs to... FUCKING IDIOTS!” Should the BBC, while Labour and the Conservatives continue to eat themselves alive, ever wish to swerve accusations of pro-Tory leanings, it could do worse than add Harri Shanahan to its political team. On the day the new PM signed off on Boris Johnson’s overseas travel allowance, the ILL singer is all over the day’s latest bout of political madness. And her band are all over us.

ILL, an increasingly compelling mix of savvy dissent and deep musicality, make much of their half hour support slot and their home crowd folds, as ever. Stuck On a Loop takes the honours tonight, though an extended, feedback-soaked wig-out led by guitarist Sadie Noble makes for a stirring finale. Shanahan, of course, has the last word as she finally calls a halt: ”Well that’s quite enough of that.”

Next up: Lola Colt toy with their material, and it can take it. New album Twist Through the Fire sees them redlining their expertly fashioned noir swagger with their best songs to date. Tonight, they pick an attentive Soup Kitchen crowd apart. A barrage of percussion, swirling keys, duelling guitars and Gun Overbye's swallow-you-whole contralto: they journey in and around a clutch of potent set-pieces. Lengthier tracks (I Get High If You Get High; Moonlight Mixing) bloom as the band test their boundaries.

Beneath the tumult, Sinah Blohberger's implacable bass is the key to the Lola Colt live sound: the band adventure and explore while she guides and holds. They're committed from the off (a bruising, opening Gold) but they make real fire towards the end of the set with Twist Through the Fire and Away From the Water, both of which sprawl and spark and ascend. They are Lola Colt. They do this because someone has to and no one else dares. They are remarkable.