The Go! Team @ Mansfield Traquair

Tonight's Smirnoff Electric Cabaret takes place within the finly crafted interior of the Mansfield Traquair, with the idea being to put on as many entertainments as a single venue and evening will allow. There are poi fire-spinners in the smoking area – "Mind your balls!" is the warning from the crowd – and Can Can dancers, buzz-saw girls and the like as warm-up acts on stage. But after all manner of slick but ultimately meaningless burlesque performances, there is nothing so refreshing as a driven and (whisper it) actually talented crew to step up and tear shit up. Tonight's headliners, the Go! Team, somehow fall shy of the euphoric candy-coated distortion-pomp glories they have been known to produce at venues and festivals far and wide, which have rightly earned them a first rate live reputation, though this is still an enjoyable set played with professional enthusiasm despite issues with the sound. Without such a fundamental hindrance, the new material played tonight could well match the near-classics from debut album Thunder Lightning Strike! [RJ Thomson]