Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It doesn’t quite matter when, for timing is unimportant in such matters, but at some point when watching Scare Tactics inside the 02 Academy as they support America’s Metal sensation Kobra and the Lotus, you will feel the floor buzz as if you have somehow placed your feet on a carpet of the biggest, meanest and understandably angry bees going. The buzz turns to a loud hum and in time becomes the type of noise in which images of 747 jet plane, perhaps being piloted by the largest bee ever seen and who woke up with a hangover the size of The Empire State Building, comes across in waves. It is palpable, it is magnificent and the beat is relentless.