SPANKBOY, KENISIA and BUCKET Café Mamba, Taunton I've got a headache. Not for the obvious post-Thursday night reasons either. Instead, the ringing in my ears bears witness to the musical assault of the 25th Sounds of the Underground. Atmospheres can be created in many ways and penning up 100 people in close quarters is one way that's sure to get them bonding, if nothing else. By the time the sound checks were fully checked and band #1 took to the Premier stage, the crowd were baying for musical blood. With evidence that Bucket were surviving on a massive Greenday transfusion they opened with a set that could have headlined a gig in other parts of town. A four track set got the ball rolling but they were never gonna be the stars of the show. Rarely would an opening track like Quirky Little Girl Sells Millions have got such a good response without the relief of now having space to swing the smallest of kittens. Such relief was short lived. To follow with Big Fish, Little Fish was much of the same but the crowd lapped it like a saucer of warm milk. Ending their days trading with No STDs in Ibiza did not produce surprises but it did prevent me from casting them off as a Bucket of the proverbial. I'm not even sure how to pronounce Kenisia so attempting a put down based on their name is impossible. More to the point, it's unnecessary. Combining a sharp brass sound with big bass and intelligent lyrics, this was a fine advert for their current EPs. Dress Like a Pimp was an exceptional example of their own material and while denigrating audience members is always a dubious way of establishing stage presence, it led seamlessly into I Don't Like You. More to the point, they played the A Team theme. A guaranteed pleaser with children of the Eighties. Their UK tour took in Birmingham on the 16th, Ipswich on the 19th and Cambridge the following night, so this stop off in Somerset's capital was quite a coup. On the subject of coups, almost 10 years to the day since Pulp played Taunton, Spankboy really is as good as it gets now. Hotly tipped to be supporting OPM (of Heaven is a Halfpipe fame) on their UK tour, they blew the opposition out of the water. While combining the look of Madness with the sound of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, they established their own, impressive style proving that brass is not just for the majorettes. They made first track, Easy, look it and the promise that Sweat would get 'everyone hot and sweaty' had been inadvertently delivered early. The danger in playing other people's material is that it can show up the holes in their own. Not so here. The climax of 'one you'll know and one you'll love' served up The Final Countdown (Europe, I ask you) and their own Like You which had the crowd wanting more but knowing that they were all moshed out. They were the Big Fish of the night, Kenisia the Little Fish, and Bucket, get right back into your angst ridden cardboard box.