THE Winchester Gate hosted the first 100% Attitude gig on Friday, March 14.

London-based threesome Abjects were the main attraction, with an acoustic set from Luke Hall and Alone in Your Crowd kicking things off.

Alone in Your Crowd are another three-piece, playing Green Day-style punk.

The drums were perhaps a bit too loud, drowning out the vocals in places, but for three young lads, they were confident and have a decent set of songs to perform.

In a larger venue, with a bigger following, they could go places.

Hall is a great showman, interacting with the growing crowd and banging out some great songs. It made for a good balance in the middle of the two bands.

Abjects are an all-girl band made up of Spain’s Noemi on guitars and vocals, Yuki from Japan on bass, and Alice from Italy on drums.

They met in London when working in a pub and decided to form a band.

And, luckily for us, it worked; despite the differences in culture and language, they are a tight, talented group and hopefully we will see them again.

Their blend of psychedelic garage pop was performed with gusto and really enjoyed by the appreciative audience.

They began with a track called Delay and went on to do a further eight tunes (all with very short titles; unsure why).

Called back for an encore, they belted out a spiky cover of cult 60s girl group tune What A Way To Die – a fantastic and thrilling finale.

These girls really rocked the Winnie Gate and were an inspired choice by the organisers.

More of the same please.

SUZIE ILESWHITTON