Just where Terris see themselves on the world atlas of music is hard to discern.
Lauded as the Next Big Thing after the release of last year's debut EP 'The Time Is Now', Terris' musical references have been as far-ranging as Guns N' Roses to the Stone Roses, they've even co-headlined with current indie darlings Coldplay.
So tonight's show, just weeks away from the release of their first album, 'Learning To Let Go', is a final chance to gauge just where they belong on the genre map.
As groups go, on first sight these are a particularly unspectacular lot. If you had to take a stab at the impetus that compelled them to the stage, it would be less love of rock and more likely bullies shoving and punching the school geeks into rebellious aural outrage.
This idea is perpetuated by their equally unspectacular sound. It may well be loud, ferocious and energetic but little thought has been given to what to do with all that volume, ferocity and energy so the result is just plain dull.
Singer Gavin Goodwin is too busy mopping up wet dreams over himself eclipsing lead G N' R Axl, while the rest of the band seem content to chug along at a stumblingly slower pace as half-arsed Stone Roses wannabes.
Credit where it's due though, Goodwin's Axl fantasy isn't far from the truth. His vocals sound way beyond the singer's apparent means, his scrawny frame seeming too meagre to house such a belting holler, but it's still only one piece of the puzzle...
The latest single, 'Fabricated Lunacy', has Goodwin jerking around the stage and howling like Bez trying to shake off a vicious Chinese burn. The staid indie riffs that back it merge into Neil Dugmore's colour-coded keyboard playing and create a trad-rockscape previously heard from the Levi-tastic Stiltskin.
And it doesn't get any better. Weller-ian jaunt 'Deliverance' is Terris' party song, but who would want to be at a party where Cast were playing with the bass cranked up?
So a year on, last year's Next Big Things are now this year's Next Big Things and still waiting to reach their destination.
