BOY KILL BOY

Sun Oct 15, 7pm, ABC, Glasgow, GBP12.50, 0870 169 0100

This strikingly named modernday beat combo - who delicately weigh down their more joyous keyboard-infused pop songs with melancholic melodies reminiscent of Morrisey and Joy Division - gained their moniker after their lead singer misheard the name of the band Boy Called Roy.

With such hearing-related mishaps taking place, you can only imagine the sort of unbridled chaos that might erupt around the London-based Britpop-revivalist rockers at any moment in time.

"Pass the sauce, " drummer Shaz Mahmood might innocently request of Chris Peck at lunchtime, before the snarling vocalist retorts: "What do you mean, gas the boss?" and throws an entire North African couscous paella at his hapless bandmate.

Having so far avoided any fatal communication breakdowns, Boy Kill Boy are in a rather cosy position at the moment. Their fanbase has rapidly grown since they released the achingly catchy break-out single, Suzie, earlier this year, which handily broke into the top 20 in time for them to capitalise on the festival season. No doubt many of the new-found followers who plan to drag themselves along to the ABC will have first experienced the band at T In The Park, or one of the other open-air debauchery-fests that plague the summer. Such shameless exposure helped debut album Civilian reach number 16 in the album charts.

Sunday's show will give the band a chance to show that they can shake off the constricting shackles of the current indie scene.

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