Only a few months after landing on these shores for the first time Vintage Trouble really have gone from being unknowns to a name that everyone is talking about. It's testament to the band's pulling power that tonight's 'free' gig is sold out. That's not as insane as it at first sounds - a ticket guarantees entry - but there can't be a single person amongst us willing to risk not gaining admittance by being without one. Me included - only hours after I'd secured my ticket the show was sold out.

I haven't been to Moles in over a decade and I'd forgotten how intimate it is - the perfect setting for tonight's gig. On the walls upstairs are reminders of all the bands that have played here over the years. Radiohead, Supergrass, Tori Amos (how the hell did they get a piano in here?), PJ Harvey and Blur. To paraphrase Moles..."the place to see bands before they become huge".

It's said that Moles hasn't been this full since Peter Green played here. Mr Green has had decades to build up his following so only something like a year into the Vintage Trouble story it really feels as if something special is happening here. The anticipation is palpable. The place is packed. The temperature is rising. There's a distinct possibility that I'm going to pass out at some point. Oh well, que sera, sera.

Richard, Nalle and Rick emerge from backstage igniting the touch-paper with a high tempo introduction to the blues. Some minutes later a suited and booted Ty emerges and the band kick into the growingly familiar 'Blues Hand Me Down'. Stone me! I don't know where these guys get their energy from. They've got the hardest job tonight and they just don't let up. Ty's shoes just won't stop dancing. Rick is furiously shaking out the bass lines from his guitar neck. Richard is hitting it double time and Nalle has already busted a string.

The crowd aren't exempt from this energetic outpouring either. At every moment we're enlisted to frantically clap and to sing on cue. If you're not churchy but always wondered what a revival might be like well wonder no more. I think that tonight's crowd is too packed to allow Ty easy entry but Ty thinks different. He's off the stage and amongst the crowd as easily as a warm knife through butter.

This is my third time seeing Vintage Trouble and it gets me every time. Authenticity and heart. I'm loathe to describe them as a blues band. I wouldn't actually be here tonight if they were just a blues band. There's so much more to them than that. They manage to embody the essentials of soul and rock. They have a rawness that transcends blues, rock and soul. Which leads me to believe that it's this very core of rawness that is the thing - not musical style.

Conditioned by my first two Vintage Trouble gigs I'm well contented after the first 40 minutes and expect them to call it a night. But how wrong I am. The band go well beyond the confines of their debut album, 'The Bomb Shelter Sessions', treating the audience to unheard gems mixing up the high tempo numbers with some stunning slow burners. There's even a number that they've written here in the UK which is a tantalising hint of what album number two could bring. And talking of slow burners the band finish up with an inspired epic performance of 'Gracefully' where Nalle tastefully lets rip and does all the hard work while the rest of us, Ty included, disappear into the relaxing vibe. Stirring stuff.

When I saw Vintage Trouble for the first time I went because I feared that it would be an isolated gig - that they'd take a plane straight back to Los Angeles and I wouldn't get to see them again. However their emerging success in the UK has seen them set up a temporary second home with support gigs with Bon Jovi and headline gigs of their own. Events are unfolding all the time and the only way to really keep up with new gigs is to keep checking their website. They're back at Moles on 15th July. They could be coming to a town near you...