By Goujon Ramsay - goujon.ramsay@googlemail.com

JetKing are an unusual band. They are 3 piece guitar outfit, but an extra member of the band is an Apple Mac connected to enough electronics to control a moon landing. What it actually controls is their synthesisers and sampler including percussion, which explains the initially worrying lack of a drummer.

Their guitar-based indie offering is underpinned by a heavy dose of synth and pumping, funky bass. So, having been caught in the wave of marketing the band has been doing on MySpace, I went to see them at the Louisiana on Wednesday evening – they were mid-bill with support from Wireman and headliners Djute.

The first thing I notice is that it may be a Wednesday evening, but the Louie is rammed to capacity – there is a buzz about JetKing, and if this sell-out crowd is anything to go by, they have generated strong following.

As Wireman close their solid set, the atmosphere starts to intensify as JetKing prepare to take stage. The band crack straight into their first number 'Ways'. Hiphop beats, funky guitar and vocals soon explode into an onslaught of overdriven melodic guitar, powerful bass, strong vocal delivery and blippy synths; this is clearly what the crowd came to see, and the reception after the first track is immense.

The set keeps things moving with a variety of material, but all fairly high energy tunes that keep the crowd hooked. It seems their signature track is 'In the Land of Monkeys'; the off-kilter guitar riff of which takes the crowd up a notch further midway through the set. The guitarist is no classically-trained virtuoso, but his tight, choppy and sometimes a little off-the-wall style really helps to make the band’s sound different to the norm.

An unusually slow number 'Let It Be Me', provides a breather for the hot crowd (for the band too it seems), with the lead guitarist taking to the keyboards for some swirling, dreamy sounds to accompany the acoustic guitar, sublime vocals and wandering melodic bass.

If this 'Let It Be Me' was the quiet, the last track ‘Indiana’ was the storm. The huge power-rush of this track made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck when it kicked in in earnest – the deceptively 80’s cowbell intro didn’t prepare me for what was to come! The Radiohead-esque outro left the crowd screaming for more – but more never came. I suppose it’s the old adage – leave them wanting.