The most obvious thing to do is to compare them to the Almighty, but I am not well qualified to do so because I don't have any of their albums after 'Powertripping'. But for what it's worth there are similarities, and one song in particular, the best song of the set has a great quiet bit/shouty bit (I said great, not original) reminiscent of Addiction, and some other songs I can't remember right now.
At one point Ricky says, "We'd like to thank Kerbdog for looking after us." I wonder if this was irony or just dumb.
Kerbdog is also a three-piece, but the contrast between the bands is great. Ricky Warwick spits all over the place, knows all the rock-god poses, and looks like a criminal. Cormac Battle (singer) is wearing a white t-shirt, and trainers that he must've stolen from a Brit-pop kid, glasses, hair that looks like it used to be in a bowl cut, and looks like someone I would challenge to a fight. The bassist has as much personality as him- can you imagine that, a mainman with as little personality as a bassist.
So, on first impressions, Kerbdog should be the sort of dire band your little brothers starts when he is at the fourth year at school, they have no right to sound this good, yet they do. Although somehow not terrribly moshable they are heavy enough, unfortunately they only play two songs from the first album (the only one I have) a brillant 'End of Green', despite Cormac's lapsing into comedy voice midway through, and an even better 'Dry Riser'. The crowd, who strangely avoided the stage when (Sic) were on it so the normal attempts at stage-diving (hard to do when the crowd is so small, effectively they were just jumping off and hoping their mate would catches them). The stage was quite worrying actually, it is at grown height and full of splinters, there's a hospitalization waiting to happen. Of the other songs, 'Sally' (the last single, not at all easy to find) is a great quiet/loud/quiet number, and is about driving or something, the new song ("Mexican Wave") unfortunately it had to be introduced as 'this is ironic', and the set closer ("On The Turn") is unfortunately disappointing. Alas 'Severed'. which I heard the last time I saw them doesn't get played.
All in all Kerbdog were great, and (Sic) could well become so.
terry