50Hz

Trekking across London on a day that started with absinthe and pizza for breakfast to see an unsigned band I’d only heard of, over DJ Shadow and Too Many DJs may seem a tad strange to the average music lover. And when I arrive to find pints at £3, a first band that sounds like a sinfully caustic Nirvana tribute act and a second support that consists of a Brian Molko wannabe on guitar, a Courtney Love wannabe on vocals, a lacy French whore wannabe on keyboards and a butt-ugly girl who’s actually a highly gothic bloke on bass that does little to convince me I’ve done the right thing.

But when that aforementioned unsigned band happens to be In The City buzz-band 50 Hertz everything else begins to fade away and you realise that for the short time they're onstage all you wanna do is focus your energy on absorbing their stirring, sonically strident swirls of sensuous atmospherics and heart-burning melodies.

The fact their amp blew up seconds before they were due to start, which meant a less-than perfect set and the fact I had to leave after just a few songs, did little to sway my belief that this is a band with something special, something eyebrow-raising, something that's miles apart from the thousands of other unsigned acts plugging the circuit.

Rumour has it they’re courting a couple of labels so if you wanna tell your kids you saw 50 Hertz when they were unsigned then check the DiS gig guide for upcoming gigs and in the meantime get hold of their EP ‘Never Awake’, available via their website – www.50hertz.co.uk.