The new new wave: vegan cakes and lapel badges

Martha cutting a rug in Queer Street in Birmingham last night.

I'll give the cakes on the door two out of five (slightly stodgy I thought), the free lapel badges one out of five (for - probable - intentional beyond-retro irony value) and the band ... well, check 'em out for yourself. Actually, indie kids like these are always pretty welcome in my house and sometimes - as I think this gig of theirs proved - indie-rock can be almost low-key, played at a moderate sound level and ... still work. Or something like that. Meanwhile, one floor below, the bewigged super-queens of B/Ham's gay zone were just warming up. But that's another story ....