Declan Welsh and the Decadent West @ Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh, 25 Sep

The Motion Poets are first to take Sneaky Pete's smoke-filled stage tonight with an atmosphere akin to an under-18s disco. The band appear to have brought their own following as a young crowd occupy the space singing along to popular tracks like Blue Eyed Monster. Despite being natural born crowd-pleasers, the group sound like a Scottish impression of indie greats like Arctic Monkeys.

After releasing her solo single Valentine as Luna Delirious, Delirious now fronts six-piece Lazy Angel who offer no introduction before launching into their set. Her voice is sultry and silken with a real undercurrent of grit, like a cigarette butt being ground beneath a shoe. She has a real command of the stage like a goosebump-inducing Nancy Sinatra. Lazy Angel strut and swagger their way through bitter country-pop love songs which could have been picked straight from a Quentin Tarantino soundtrack. The band have an air of excitement about them, as if they know they are the next best thing to come from Glasgow.

Fresh from their tour in Germany, Declan Welsh and the Decadent West take to the stage to the welcome of an 1980s new wave band returned home. Welsh beguiles audience members with his new found grasp of the German language: “Danke Shoen,” he says with a thick Glaswegian twang. The band play through tracks such as Shiny Toys and new single Lull, which highlights why the ‘No Crowd Surfing’ sign is needed tonight as people dive off the stage and are thrown around like ragdolls while the rest of the audience pogos up and down.

The night before news breaks of Dale Barclay's untimely passing having lost his fight with brain cancer, Welsh speaks of Barclay's recent operation and goes on to deliver an impassioned cover of The Amazing Snakeheads' Here It Comes Again, drawing attention to the brilliant juxtaposition of the song's simple rock'n'roll lyrics with the wordy and more complicated songwriting from Welsh’s own. Their impressive set it brougt to a close with a solo cover of Aretha Franklin’s Say a Little Prayer and the politically-charged crowd favourite, No Pasaran.