It's Plastic Little's UK debut and things aren't going exactly to plan. The rap quartet aren't rolling as deep as usual; MC Jon Thousand was struck down by appendicitis the Saturday prior, so he's recovering back home in Philadelphia along with one of the producers of the group, SQUID. And although Mark "Ooh Wee" Ronson is in the building, responsibility for rocking London falls to Plastic Little's remaining healthy members: MCs PackofRats (Jayson Musson) and No Body's Child (Kurt Hunte) backed by tour DJ Siyoung.

Not ones to let a little inflammation of the appendix ruin their fun, Philadelphia's slightly unhinged, art rap gutter mouths launch on to stage spitting over Yo Majesty's "Club Action", before dropping the debauched, late-night tales of their single "Crambodia" (featuring Amanda Blank and Ghostface, although unfortunately these two are not in the building). Coming off like a 30 minute live mixtape, the hyperactive duo lace instrumentals from the likes of Ratatat, Hot Chip and Peter Bjorn & John with their trash talking, race and politics in-jokes and filthy, chat-up rhymes, before ending with the Plastic Little love poem that got this gang of thrift store stick-up kids and Blue Peter bling kings noticed in the first place - the Cure-liberating "Get Close".

However offstage, in his irony laden, self-depreciating style, RatofRats declares, "People in London dress really well, I feel a bit intimidated, like a $2 black Kurt Cobain. But hopefully one that is copulatable. But you see I don't know any UK sex talk, I don't want there to be any misconception of words so I'm afraid to speak to UK girls. I'm just going to stare at them and write them poems."