In a follow-up to the recent trip to BBC Maida Vale Studios in London to see Fighting With Wire record a BBC Live session for Radio 1, TheVibe managed to score some pretty tasty guest-list spaces to go and see the much talked about live show of Northern Ireland's Fighting With Wire.

Following a three-hour train journey and another outrageous injustice as I was forced to pay to use the toilets in Liverpool station (which may I add were 30p this time, a 10p increase on Kings Cross and the Government reckons inflation is only two per cent!), I was into Liverpool itself, home of the Scouser, two big football teams, lots of building works and The Beatles.

However, this adventure was not to pay homage to a band that changed the face of the music world, or to watch muscular men in shorts chase some leather around a field (which sounds quite primitive when you put it like that), it was to see one of the best up-and-coming bands in British rock at the moment, Fighting With Wire.

After a guided tour of the venue by a rather proud owner and three pretty decent local support acts playing their sets, the room was adequately sweaty and thus it was ready for the headliners.

Fighting With Wire have been receiving a lot of support in the media recently from the likes of Zane Lowe and Huw Stephens for having a no-holds-barred attitude to their live shows, which is one of the reasons I was so keen to see them.

The Northern Irish three-piece opened their set with the first track from their new album Man Vs Monster, titled Cut The Transmission. This upbeat, impact driven song set the crowd off, and as the touch paper was lit by the first punchy note, the night well and truly caught fire.

FWW went on to play a selection of tunes from their EP Machine Parts as well as some favourites from their new album.

Every song saw the rare combination of complete musical control and tightness, with the energetic, crowd pleasing antics of the entire band, especially frontman Cahir.

As the set drew to a close, Fighting With Wire unleashed their very own Monster of a tune in the form of Everyone Needs A Nemesis, which had the venue rocking.

After witnessing the power and precision of this set, I think I will throw my hat in with the increasingly large number of people who are tipping Fighting With Wire for big things.

So where can so see these guys to agree with me? Well, they've spent four weeks in the top four of the MTV2 Chart, they're on Kerrang TV, NME TV, in lots of magazines, and also at www.myspace.com/FightingWithWire