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Tattooed Millionaires + Dirty Angels + Peep Show

Glasgow Nice 'n' Sleazy, 12th December 2006

'Are we mad?' The car swerves. The rain is so heavy that, even with the windscreen wipers on full tilt, we can barely see five yards in front of us.

'Possibly.' We are, after all, forging our way along the M8 in what can only be described as extreme weather conditions, to check out three glam bands that no-one's ever heard of, or indeed is likely to hear of.

Still, it would be nice to think that Livingstone's answer to Faster Pussycat, our favourite glamtastic guttersnipes Peep Show, could hit the big time. Exploding off a stage barely the size of a postage stamp (and not one of those newfangled large fellas either), they treat us to a short but sweet set that was bursting with pure adrenalin. Lead singer Johnny Gunn is a real rock'n'roll livewire, belting out 1980s glam with a cheeky 21st century gleam in his eye, going crazy on stage and off. 'Sex Gun', 'Cat Boy', 'Peep Show', my top choice 'Nice Night To Die' and the obligatory cover of 'Bathroom Wall'… all your favourite MySpace songs were present and politically incorrect and who could ask for anything more?

Next up, Dumfries's answer to AC/DC, the Dirty Angels, belt out a solid set of driving, bar room rock'n'roll that's only marred by some rather out of tune vocals and the lack of any covers for us to recognise, but hey, no-one's perfect…

And onto the main event, the Tattooed Millionaires, 'from California - home of sun, fun an guns. And we're gonna need those guns to fight for your freedom to rock…' Yup, welcome to the cheesiest, most flannel-filled onstage banter you have ever had the pleasure of witnessing. Charismatic frontman Johnny Jetson may look like Prince after a heavy night on the tiles (either he's quite a bit older than his rock'n'roll cohorts Roxy Vayn and Justin or he's had a very hard paper round) but his patter is pure Barry White meets Justin Hawkins and he works the room like a pro, serenading the lovely ladies of the crowd and saluting 'Glassgow', the jewel in the crown of Scotland, now rechristened Rockland for the night… Oh boy!

In between we have a cool package of catchy, dirty, glampunk tunes interspersed with covers that instantly reveal the band's influences: The Kinks' 'All Day And All Of The Night', T-Rex's '20th Century Boy' and the MC5's 'Kick Out The Jams'. Stand out tracks of the night have to be their delightful answer to 'Beer and a Cigarette', 'All I Need Is You And Another Drink' – you gotta love it – and the hip swaying rock groove of 'Bad Boys and Astronauts'. Bruce Dickinson may not have wanted to be a Tattooed Millionaire, but it seems to me he could be missing out – it looks like fun up on that stage. Worth braving the elements for? I'd say so...

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