Sailor Jerry Presents... !!! @ The Arches, 18 Jun

Fresh off the back of recent successes with Los Campesinos and Mystery Jets, Sailor Jerry Presents... hauls its travelling tattoo and rum themed show into Glasgow. Tonight we’re treated to an intimate free show by !!! (Chk Chk Chk) – a proper coup as it happens, as the Sacramento octet’s only UK tour date in advance of their anticipated follow-up to 2007’s excellent Myth Takes.

A strained, anticipatory atmosphere fills The Arches, though the Sailor Jerry girls offering free transferable tattoos grant some temporary, novel diversion. A short wander beyond the mainstage arch leads the audience to a cosy cinema and a rare showing of 2008 film Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry: The Life of Norman K. Collins – a well meaning, pedestrian biographical documentary with colourful subject matter at its heart.

Sure enough, !!! bring the adrenaline shot needed to revitalise the crowd, hitting the stage with their high energy dance-punk fusion – comfortably falling somewhere in-between The Rapture and The Faint, with added tenacity and sax. Testing out material from the forthcoming Strange Weather, Isn’t It?, the band confidently recite their fresh, apt mantra - ‘You gotta trust the music’ – over psychedelic guitars and a seemingly ever accelerating beat. As teasers go, tonight bodes well for the slab of wax in store. [Rachel Bowles]