Live review: Justice Done, The First and Last, Pembroke Dock, Saturday, January 15th.

Fiona Phillips: Your sentence, for the heinous crime of knowing all the words to an entire McFly CD, is to be taken to a smoky, real ale pub where you will be forced to listen to real musicians play real music on real instruments for two hours on a Saturday night.

Justice Done.

Yet another of Simon Haslam's alter-egos has been let loose on an unsuspecting Pembrokeshire public again.

Simon, by day a mild-mannered college lecturer, fronts no fewer than three local bands - the quirky and utterly fantastic Preseli Pete and the Bluestone Boys; The Shambelles, a soul combo that would put The Commitments to shame, and Justice Done, which provides audiences with an eclectic range of music from Dr Feelgood to swing, by way of classic punk.

The band has recently started touring again and returned to a warm welcome at Pembroke Dock's First and Last Saturday.

It took a couple of numbers to get into their stride, but soon the whole audience was bopping along to familiar sounds, and some innovative takes on well-known standards.

Justice Done take classics like Elvis's Heartbreak Hotel and Chuck Berry's Nadine and rework them to within an inch of their lives - and yet it works like a dream.

Couple this with a sublime version of the one of the word's favourite singles - well, mine and John Peel 's at any rate - Teenage Kicks, add some brilliant R 'n' B with the Rolling Stones' All Over Now, in a version nearly as good as Feargal Sharkey's, plus classic sixties pop in the form of the Beatles' I Saw Her Standing There and it was shaping up to be an unforgettable evening.

Although the band is led by Simon the showman, to a backdrop of delicious guitar-playing from the multi-talented Bob Phillips, this is a tight ensemble where everyone's contribution is vital, and no-one steals the limelight from anyone else.

Alan Morgan on bass had an understated authority and drummer Steve Williams never once overdid it either. If you like rock and blues with a punky edge - or even if your don't, don't miss Justice Done. It would be just criminal.

FP