Vivian Girls @ Captain's Rest, 6 Dec

The Vivian Girls are psychic. No, really. They demonstrate their powers tonight by asking a crowd member to whisper the name of a well-known celebrity in the ear of Cassie Ramone, and moments later Kickball Katy declares triumphantly “It’s Lindsay Lohan!” A squealed ‘ohmigod!’ confirms their supernatural omniscience, but their powers don’t stop there. Their prescience is eerie: it’s as if they somehow sensed the time was right for a band to take the sound of Edinburgh indie pop legends The Shop Assistants, amp up the shoegaze and harmonise their way into the blogosphere as ‘the best new band ever’ # 5447. But where fellow 2008 hype-ees like Black Kids have found themselves abandoned by impatient hipsters hungry for immediate results, the Vivian Girls tonight show a more tangible promise. They rattle through every song they know, dropping a note here and adding a giggle there, and the effect is utterly mesmerising. [Chris Buckle]