PLANS & APOLOGIES Nottingham Rescue Rooms

Plans And Apologies are welcomed onto the stage by Ryan. Ryan is about 18 and completely naked except for a black leatherette thong. He will proceed to throw shapes ranging from retarded strongman to grecian statue for the next half an hour. His parents must be proud.

The fact that Plan And Apologies warrant their very own minature Har Mar is a testament to their talent, I suppose. The band, all seven of them, are straddling the line between troubled teenagers and bittersweet young men. The singer embodies Morrisey, Paul Weller and Joe Strummer lightly kissing the forehead of a young Michael Stipe behind the Grange Hill bike sheds and lyrics like “What happened to the things that I liked doing? Playing guitar, smoking too much, complaining and screwing” seem to sum up the pleasantly twee attitude of these noisy boys who are prone to occasional ‘rocking out’. Plans And Apologies are loud, angry emo that’s festered in a young musician’s bedroom for far too long before finally exploding in a fluffy mushroom cloud and covering the Midlands in gym socks, lemonade and underage sex and drugs.