Die! Die! Die! @ Captain's Rest, 9 Sep

If I know anything about Kiwi band managers - and having watched an awful lot of Flight of the Conchords, I’d say I'm pretty clued up - it’s that they can’t find their bands an audience for toffee. It’s the only way to explain why New Zealand’s Die! Die! Die! are playing to a half-empty room on this, their fourth trip to the city. Tonight’s support set from Glasgow’s Hyena (***) manages to fill the empty space between bodies with a solid cacophony of Rival Schools-esque punk rock played at eye socket rattling volume, a not-so-subtle but nicely effective salvo for the bombardment that follows. Die! Die! Die! take to the stage, politely request we move forward a little and suddenly singer/guitarist Andrew Wilson is everywhere; careening around the room, hitting himself and collapsing to his knees with body-shaking howls. By their final song of melodic ferocity a la Trail of Dead he’s lying with his head tucked inside the bass drum, feedback squealing from his discarded guitar while the bass rumbles on. Hopefully by trip five there’ll be more present to weather their visceral fury. [Chris Buckle]