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Guitar, Drums, Vocals: Jonathan Chamberlain. Bass Guitar: Tom Connor. Guitar, Drums, Vocals: John Lappin. Guitar, Lead Vocals, Bass: Tom Kitten. I arrived at North-West Kent College with great expectations for the night ahead. Roscoe are famed for their fiery performances and tonight was to be no exception. As I walked into the cavernous venue I was handed a rather ugly Scrap of paper detailing the night's attractions. Inside I found the following:

Ah, Roscoe; teacher, mother, secret lover. How could the world live without you.

I take a seat next to the messiah of noise 'Mr Rumblefish' and begin to endure the outputs of the evening. A better than average Abba tribute starts it off but things go rapidly downhill from thereon. Acts go from bad to worse until a band of gay, torture and bore us for what seems like a hour with barking, screaming and random riffery.

However all picks up as word spreads that Roscoe are soon to emerge. Tension rises. We pick our way to the front. From backstage our saviors arrive and before we know it all has gone like a crazy horse.

The band start with a sleazy pumped up version of 'She's a Honey' by the noise-meisters themselves 'Stony Sleep' Mr Chamberlain's guitar is fantastically out of tune and his slimy solo is the peak of the evening so far. We are left wondering how they can top this.

Suddenly due to a bout of heavy electricity, Tom Kitten's guitar is failing to work and after much failed attempts to correct the situation the band continue with just the axe work of Mr chamberlain to keep it all in place. And thus follows a terrifyingly brilliant rendition of 'Lady Lazarus', another top Stony hit. Without his guitar, The Kitten jives the stage to the heights of jiveness. Even the normally sedate Mr Connor is forced to submit to the stargazer.

Halfway through the song Mr Kitten withdraws the final weapon in his much feared arsenal and starts to do the solo on his harmonica. Sheer brilliance.

Roscoe finish the unfortunately short set with their re-working of 'Sunday' by Sonic Youth. Chamberlain and Lappin swap duties for this grand finale of noise. 'Sunday comes and Sunday goes....' 'kchunk...kweeeeelllll' The noise is amazing. Excellent work from Mr Lappin.

The band leave refusing to encore. For sure this was a fine evening.