But thankfully, the place fills up (sold out) and begins to push to the front. Once they take stage, particular Jemima Pearl, something of a frenzy takes place. It’s instantly noticeable what stage presence she has. All the girls are screaming for her, and all the guys are watching in awe. She is possibly the replacement for Karen O of arty, young female icon in rock now that it seems she’s gone a bit AWOL on the new Yeah Yeah Yeah’s record.

But once they do start playing, the place erupts. One of the best parts about BYOP’s debut, self titled album is how incredibly exciting and even authentic opener 'Thresher’s Flail' sounds; it’s as if it’s been ripped from a live show. And thankfully, despite sound levels now being all they could have been, it sounds just as exciting live. The band set the stage for Pearl with the wonderfully built-up intro, and then they explode into life, being lead by Pearl’s shouted lyrics “Still cornfields resting you in the sun, I've never had this much fun!” and with it, the audience are captivated from beginning to end as they move into a frantic non-stop freight train of post-punk noise, sweat and energy. Slightly disappointingly though, the continued stream-of-consciousness of the album doesn’t happen here, as the second track 'Bunk Trunk Skunk' has to wait its turn on the set list.

There’s not much else to complain about though as a clearly excited Be Your Own PET laid waste of the crowd in wonderful style barely giving the audience a chance as they are continuously assaulted by BYOP’s frantic sound. One thing that is quickly noticeable though is just how much this whole thing smacks of The Hives. Ok, Pearl may have stage presence, but it’s not the swagger or stage persona ego of Howlin’ Pelle Anqvist, but the sound, the energy, and the sheer velocity Be Your Own Pet play at is just as exciting as The Hives, and promises to be just as exciting in the future (after all, The Hives started at about the same age as BYOP and have banged out three fantastic records so far.) ‘Fuuuuuun’ for instance is a perfect example of the similar post-punk influence the two bands share along with all the energy and tightness to simply blow their fans away.

Ironically, also just like The Hives, it is Be Your Own Pet’s most famous single that is the only one that is not played to the excellent standard of the rest of the set. Like on the album ‘Adventure’ just doesn’t work, except, live it just sounds like a sloppy mess most of the time because of the difference in pace and energy, which is close to The Hives who were always notorious for not being able to play 'Hate to Say I Told You So' they’re biggest hit to date. It’s a shame to see because, ‘Adventure’ is a fantastic pop song, but this performance of it comes close to ruining it.

What is most welcome though is the return of their debut single ‘Damn, Damn Leash’ which they thankfully destroy for the pleasure of the audience. Ripping in after the fantastic ‘OUCH’, that riff that got BYOP noticed in the first place comes crashing in, and queue a huge shout-a-long of “Well you got me on a leash, a damn, damn leash and it’s hard enough to see my damn self!” and is, essentially, classic.

Another interesting dimension into this show was the battle between the band and the security crew, who weren’t at all happy about the audiences stage diving antics, whereas the band were happy for the crowd to do it as long as they respected each other. There was many attempts through the set by the guards to capture those who dared do it, only to be thwarted by the band themselves, while they were playing, as if nothing happened. THEN, one guy gets on stage and decides to run up to Pearl and kiss her. This is where they were more than welcome for the Security Guards to come along. This got a mixed reaction. There’s been a notorious reputation building about Pearl and, what some call, her having a “rock-star” attitude. But basing on the evidence shown tonight seems to me she was fully justified to be angry at the guy who did it, and we were lucky that she didn’t walk off as has been reported from previous shows where she has been treated with disrespect. In all honesty, it does seem a shame that certain people think they have the right to treat her as merely an object because she’s the front woman (of 19 years of age, I may add) of a band they like.

Luckily though, this doesn’t disrupt things too much as BYOP go on to play one of the longest set’s in their short career (about 45 minutes) which is impressive for such a young band with so much passion and energy for what they do, without even playing all the songs off their 33 minute debut album. Finishing the set with the fantastically angry ‘Fill my Pill’, as a final ‘fuck you’ to the guards, both Bassist Nathan Vasquez and Guitarist Jonas Stein, stage dived into the audience as Orrall stayed on stage alone playing drums. A fantastically energetic and tight performance for such a young band; we look forward to the future of Be Your Own Pet.