SEPT 8th/9th CHARITY GIG FOR "KIDS COMPANY", Kings Head, Aylesbury.

Having toured in Yorkshire throughout the previous week, released an album on Saturday with ensuing radio and press interviews over the weekend, one would have thought Touchstone, an edgey prog-rock unit from Watford, would have delivered a jaded set. Not a bit of it, their wonderfully asymmetric material enthralled the crowd topped off by some exquisite three-part vocal passages. Musical perfection suffixed with the most imaginative cover of Tears For Fears, Mad World I've ever heard.