Babes In Toyland: Garage, Glasgow

THEY MAY be down, but the Babes come out fighting. Battling lukewarm reviews for their patchy new album and general indifference to grungular yank yowling, they still turn a half-full Glasgow ballroom into a trampoline-floored stagediver hell with blood-boiling opener 'Bruise Violet'. Some might view this ferocious belligerence as healthy self-confidence, others as a desperate attempt to regain the plot...