Since their first album in 2001, Hayseed Dixie have gone from being just a hillbilly AC/DC tribute, to being a phenomenon in themselves.

This was just the warm up gig - the first night of their UK and European tour - but the acoustic four-piece finger-picked energetically through some of rock's greatest songs, adding their own inimitable bluegrass twist.

The bank holiday clashed with the release of their new album, Weapons of Grass Destruction and lead singer Barley Scotch ruefully told between swigs of beer how they'd rolled up to collect the CDs from their record company's office - only to find it closed.

His cheery patter was a refreshing change from the cliché-ridden angst rock of young support act, Darkwater. They were energetic, and proficient and the lead singer and guitarist had very shiny hair but that's about the best I can say about them. Apparently this is the second time they've supported Hayseed Dixie but it seems like a strange fit.

From hoedown style Back in Black through The Ace of Spades to a strangely haunting slowed-down version of the Sex Pistols' Holidays in the Sun the group only stopped long enough to slurp more welldeserved booze, and for the lead singer to laconically hold forth about his love of alcohol and a fuller-figured woman. This led onto a chubby-chick themed medley, which included Queen's Fat Bottomed Girls.

Although the highlight was a version of You Shook Me All Night Long the following cover was less predictable - The Scissor Sisters' I Don't Feel Like Dancin'.

Half the fun was the gap between the expectation of how a well-loved song would usually be performed, and the way the band played it.

For this reason, with their own compositions, or ones that readily fit their style the thrill wasn't quite so great.

Or maybe it was due to the lyrical content of their own songs, for example, a charming story of keeping an ex-girlfriend's excrement.

And the title? Poop in a Jar. Nice.