Shonen Knife @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 20 Apr

No-one seems to be having more fun being in a rock and roll band than Risa Kawano. Though she may be several decades younger than her two Shonen Knife bandmates, the drummer slots seamlessly into the Japanese trio's energetic indie-punk, grinning effervescently and battering her kit into submission.

In front of her, sisters Atsuko and Naoko Yamano, clad in matching blue and yellow dresses, holler their way through a set of songs about critters and cake, like a technicolour Ramones raiding your pantry. From the un-rock and roll background of 80s Osaka, the sisters caught the ear of K Records and eventually found themselves playing support for Nirvana on their 1991 UK tour.

Now five decades into their career, they’ve released almost two dozen albums and toured the world before rocking up for tonight’s show in Summerhall’s Dissection Room. The set opens appropriately, with a song called Konnichiwa. It takes a little while to get the guitar and vocal mix right but the energy is there from the off, with the Yamanos' showing off synchronised stage moves and hammering at their instruments back-to-back.

Certain topics have been staples of the Shonen Knife playbook, with the tracks played tonight taking their names from food (Wasabi, Sweet Candy Power, Ramen Rock) and animals (I Am a cat, Cobra Versus Mongoose). 1998’s excellent Happy Hour gets the most attention, but tracks from across their career are scattered in, with the two sisters trading lead vocals and their drummer taking a pair of showcases.

From declaring their love of shortbread to leaping around to a song called Banana Chips, it’s a set packed with off-kilter charm and the crowd goes wild for it. The set ends with a cover of Blitzkrieg Bop, a song whose bubbling energy sounds in some ways like a prototype for everything Shonen Knife have done. And of course, by the end, Risa Kawano is still grinning. So are the crowd.