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4ft Fingers, Mr Zippy, SCC and Mr Belding, Exeter Cavern Club, 20-03-03

Mr Belding have gotten a lot better since the Mini-Punkfest, both getting more confident and starting to phase out the little shouty songs and bad in-jokes in favour of more controlled songs which show the talent of the band, not just the juvenility.  Mr Belding, we love you but you don’t half get annoying! (6)

Second Class Citizens seemed a bit out of place on this bill, but they always seem so to me anyway. A bit too rocky for the punks and too punky for the metallers (clichéd, but true), never the less they stuck at it as always and seem to be enjoying themselves. Got the crowd moving well and although Second Class Citizens aren’t my particular cup of tea they were entertaining and kudos to them for the effort put in. (7)

Mr Zippy were pushed hard to entertain a crowd mainly there for 4ft but they managed amazingly well.  They managed to get a pit going out of nothing and made the audience feel that they not only belonged with the band but they were mates with them too.  Which is always a good thing to do.  The set go a bit tiresome but songs about wanking make it all better.  I mean, how can a band be boring if the get the audience to admit to masturbation?  I don’t know…the cheeky chappies… (9)

4Ft Fingers- what more can you say? Bouncing on with the p-rock release ‘Brickwall’ the boys really seemed to feed off the crowd and it all turned into a big mixed up punk rock frenzy type danceathon-o-rama!! They played a good mix of ‘At Your Convenience’ and ‘From Hero To Zero’, including classics ‘Busted’, ’Hopeless Romantic’(personal favourite), and skank-a-thon ‘Killing Time’. A mini two person stage invasion signalled 4ft anthem ‘Sense of Direction’. Basically, this was nigh on the best set I’ve seen in the Cavern this year. Rob - you’re doing a-ok! (10)