OH YES, it's Bank Holiday and we've all got a couple of extra days of work to recover from excess.

So it only makes sense to head out and see Newcastle boys Free Diamonds and the five other bands set to make the Easter bunny rock his little socks off.

Free Diamonds are on their second album, but that doesn't mean you'll have heard of them, because their record deal is in America. Not in a Mariah Carey not-good-enough-for-anywhere-else way, mind, but in a we're-not-going-to-do-anything-you-expect way.

If you want to track down the new album, which they say is the best stuff they've ever done, it is on Deep Elm Records and can be bought via iTunes this month.

Support comes from Norwich punk rockers 32FramesPerSecond, Leeds punks Nana's Revenge (with scenes hopefully reminiscent of a sequel to the Mighty Boosh's Nanageddon, although we can't promise), Dirty Kirst and The Vordermans, who still claim to have had more members than rehearsals.

A Flipping Good Friday, tonight, the Dog and Partridge, 7pm. Admission £4.