Vic Galloway presents... Remember Remember @ Electric Circus, 17 November

Looking resplendent like Oor Wullie on kirk day, Adam Stafford takes stage for the second of Vic Galloway’s hand-picked nights at Electric Circus. Having wiped the slate with the dissolution of his much-loved but mainly overlooked band Y’all Is Fantasy Island, Stafford flies solo with his guitar, loop pedal and layers of weird and wonderful vocal inflections. Step Up, Raise Hands is an effective opening blueprint of scratchy guitar percussion and wolf howling. Witch Hunt is perhaps the highlight though, Stafford laying down some effective white-boy beatboxing before building the bare bones into the soundtrack for a cathartic pagan field dance. Bizarre but brilliant.

With Galloway introducing tonight’s main act as having made his album of the year, Remember Remember put on a suitably epic show in celebration. Playing as a seven-piece, Graeme Ronald’s amorphous troupe have tightened up immeasurably since the charming, yet ramshackle days of old. The likes of Ocean Potion simply sound magnificent when all guns are blazing but there seems more fun and looseness involved, the various peaks arrived at as the performance, rather than the record, dictates. The ebullient John Candy provides a fitting send-off with even some karaoke groups from adjacent rooms bobbing their heads in appreciation. It seems Vic has some solid evidence to back up that grand claim.