Terrorvision are one of those bands that took me a while to realise their full worth. I was 16 and playing in a band called the Super Hairy Arseholes, I was listening almost exclusively to Motörhead, The Dogs D'Amour and INXS. The Almighty and The Wildhearts had not long been knocking on my door, and I had, thankfully, just let them in, while the Backyard Babies were still in the shop down the road buying two bottles of wine for a fiver and would soon be here with Safety Pin & Leopard Skin. Our guitarist suggested we play some Terrorvision - 'What Makes You Tick' in fact. I didn't like the idea particularly, I'd not come round to them yet, but the reason we didn't play it probably had more to do with rolling down stairs, fighting with Sex Pistols tribute bands and drinking an out-of-date keg of Budweiser.

And then in 1999 everything changed. It was the Big Day Out, headlined by Metallica, with half a performance by Marilyn Manson, a dire one by Placebo, and then there was Symposium. Great... but there were only two things that I came away caring about that day - the fact that someone tried to hijack my slice of watermelon, and Terrorvision. Bang! Since that fateful day when they took to the stage in white tracksuits (or was it lime-green shell suits? One was Reading, the other was Big Day Out!) I have never looked back, knowing from that moment that Terrorvision were always going to be one of the best live bands I have ever seen. Even those sections of the Über administration who aren't massive Terrorvision fans cannot fault their live performance, and for me, since that day a full blown Terrorvision fan, can only be happy when they're coming to town.

This time I made my way back down to my recent stomping ground of Brighton to catch them at the seafront venue called Concorde 2, and was delighted to find them still on the form of their lives. Opening with 'Neighbourhood' they proceeded to power through more sugar-coated catchy delights than you can shake a teddy picker at. It was freezing cold outside but almost unbearably hot inside. I could feel my sweat (or was it yours?) dripping down the back of my drenched Über Rock t-shirt as almost the whole packed venue bounced around uncontrollably. I have never been boiled like that at a venue before - not even watching Terrorvision. Just when I thought it was all too much my mate would emerge from the waves with an ice-cold can of beer or Terrorvision would break into another golden classic. From early crowd pleasers such as 'My House' and 'Don't Shoot My Dog' through 'Oblivion', 'Perseverance', and the infamous, 'Tequila', each one was a nugget of delight.

Their most recent album, the excellent 'Super Delux', is also brimming with ready-made classics and many of them are on show tonight - with new single 'Pushover' and 'Shiny Things' being among the highlights. I could feel the last gasps of life yearning to escape my exhausted body, and despite the excellence of the set by the time the encore of 'Alice What's the Matter' and 'Pretend Best Friend' came around all I could think about was survival and cold water!

And so emerging from the Concorde 2 both drunk and dehydrated I took my clothes off and ran in to the stormy October sea in search of whales and dolphins. About one second before I crashed against the waves it ceased to feel like a good idea, but the momentum of the evening had taken over. At least this review is testimony to the fact that both myself and the boys from Bradford are still around. Roll on the next Terrorvision tour!