Aberfeldy @ The Liquid Room

Even if twee poppy music isn't your arena, behind the happy-go-lucky pop tunes of Aberfeldy lie lyrical gems and a wealth of talent. Rounding off their UK tour on home turf, tonight the quintet play to a packed dance floor of screaming (yes, screaming) fans.

The set interchanges the quintet's well known sing-along rousing debut album tracks with new material from this summer's LP release 'Do Whatever Turns You On'. The home gig also offers plenty of opportunity for inter-song banter. Vocalist Riley Briggs jokes that it's great to be back on home ground, just like the old days "before we hit it big and put a guitar-shaped swimming pool in my back garden in Leith!" We also learn the identity of the café of 'Vegetarian Restaurant' fame (Susie's Diner, Nicholson Street).

Come the end of the evening, those screaming fans demand an encore which consists of two songs and a medley as the finale - during which, support band, female electro pop outfit Dateless, return to the stage as dancers. What becomes clear after this performance is that each of Aberfeldy's pop songs is a well-crafted, carefully measured three minute wonder that you could happily boil an egg to. [Yamsin Ali]