Conflict Diamonds / Arse2Mouth @ Henry's Cellar Bar

Unleash your inner redneck proclaims tonight's flyer, which begs the question, do you really want to discover you have one? Fortunately, Conflict Diamonds (4/5) are more concerned with machine gun-spitting guitar fury, potentially crowd-injuring drumming and natty waistcoats to bother with such ontological issues. Touching the right bases of John Spencer Blues Explosion and The Kills, these local lads effortlessly whip the crowd into some barnstorming dancefloor action. With stripped-down country songs about wife beating and paedophilia, Arse2Mouth (2/5) live up to our stereotyped perceptions of redneck-dom, but thankfully their tongues have firmly set up camp in their cheeks. Such lack of political correctness may be a guilty pleasure, but it's when they occasionally play it straight on the likes of Maxine, that they most impress. A fine night of drinking, dancing and, for one punter, forcible ejection due to vomiting. What's so redneck about that? [Darren Carle]