Patterns @ The Roadhouse, Manchester, 13 April

Do you remember your fifth birthday? No, me neither, but I presume it was dire; someone will have thrown a tantrum and it was most probably a wholly regrettable experience for all involved. Luckily, the good folk from indie clubnight Underachievers Please Try Harder have a wealth of experience from multiple birthdays to plough into this, their penultimate outing, which coincides with their own – well – fifth birthday.

In the prestigious headline slot are Patterns, a Mancunian band whose recent quiet spell makes them a perfect choice for such a celebration of awkward slackerdom (a hedonistic union of gig-then-club, all under the sweatiest of roofs).

With a menagerie of new tracks presumably destined to feature on their debut album, the four delinquent-looking types shoegaze the crowd into an appreciative stupor. Their pop-spangled landscape is weathered by all elements: downbeat ‘vibes’ sit next to the unbridled joy of their weird, synth-raptured melodies, which in turn sit next to the unbridled joy of a lot of drunk people on a Saturday night. So unbridled, indeed, is the joy, that there is even an encore. In this day and age of ‘that’s your lot, now go home,’ Patterns actively put in some overtime.

As noteworthiness goes, Induction is a bittersweet moment; this wilfully skew-whiff electro composition – seemingly about new beginnings – acts as an optimistic almost-goodbye to Underachievers, one of a rare breed of credible Mancunian music institutions. [Lucy Holt]