Little Fish have played the Cobden Club a couple of times before. The venue is more school play than sweaty rock 'n'  roll.  Expensive Finnish bottled lager is vitually all that's offered at the bar, which might be reasonable if it was in any way different to any other aenemic lagers available for a pitance at your nearest supermarket. Traditionally the Finns are known more for the quantity of their drinking than the quality of their drink. The lights are somewhat odd, and there is a look of experimentation to them. Little Fish perform at their best when there is the sweat of rock and roll legends ingrained in the walls. For their first performance of 2008 Little Fish overcome the lack of atmosphere (which seems to overwealm and envelope the other bands) to produce a fine performance.

How to spot a real rock venue:

1) The walls are not light coloured, normally they will be black, but dark red is acceptable. Any other colour is a bar, or a living room .....

(to be continued)