The “party-in-a-can” vibe that Bumblebeez bring is a fitting prelude for Ms S-O-V, Queen of grime and boast-rap. Offering the mic up to front-row munters by the dozen, Bumblebeez create a convoluted, raucous, screechy mayhem to get us aurally lubed up.

Unquestionably exuberant as well as talented, Chris Colonna (vocalist/drummer/Mexican jumping bean) has perfected countless variations on the Toyota jump. He propels himself around the stage, only remaining in one place when his services are required to mercilessly bash the skins. Bumblebeez provide a sonic collage akin to flicking between radio stations. There’s much sampling going on with Gwen Stefani’s ‘Hollaback Girl’ featuring heavily throughout ‘Ultra Fast Car’. Homage or fromage?

“Make way for the S-O-V!” Sporting baggy black pants and a fluoro orange t-shirt emblazoned with one of her song’s titles (‘Those Were The Days’) the trademark side-pony-tailed one detonates onto the stage.

“Officially the biggest midget in the game” she may be, but at least she’s not vertically challenged and cursed with a name that rhymes with ‘midget’ like Yours Truly! Her charisma defies her stature and the crowd misbehave.

In-between song banter is almost as entertaining as the cranking tracks themselves; she sniffs her armpit “Shit! I STINK!”, recalls a bygone Neighbours character “Fucken’ Joe Mangle, nah wha’ I mean?” and even pays out on us as a sporting nation “Cricket is the most boring sport – it’s shit! You don’t do so well in football, do you? It’s alright, everyone has their weakness!”

The atmosphere inside the venue mimics an arena as members of the nose-bleed section scramble up onto one another’s backs as if taking a mark in AFL footie. ‘Hoodie’ almost incites a riot and injects a healthy dose of fear into all the glammed-up bee-arches in da house.

Sweat drips from the drummer’s every pore as he accompanies Lady Sovereign’s rapid-fire flow, particularly during standout track ‘Blah! Blah!’ Her geezer-bird accent even makes it possible to rhyme “Blah!” with “Uh-vuh! [Other]”! All rumbling bass and pelting drums, we could be witnessing a female Dizzee Rascal!

Botting a fag from a random punter, Lady Sovereign would make Lily Allen look twee! Her cover of ‘Pretty Vacant’ by Sex Pistols is anti-establishment punk with currency.

Check out live video footage= if you know what’s good for you!

The band leaves the stage. Is it that time already? The crowd’s having none of it-“S-O-V! S-O-V!” She storms back on to reverb the rafters with ‘Love Me Or Hate Me’- even snatching a cymbal from her drummer’s grasp to create her own crashes. “Well I can’t dance and I really can’t sing. I can only do one thing and that’s be Lady Sovereign” Well that’s just fine by us! May a ‘Public Warning’ be issued to “Make way for the S-O-V!”

Charging forward, full throttle!