The Cork-based quartet emerged victorious over Belfast's Cutaways, Dublin's Mail Order Messiahs and local favourites The Dirty 9s to win the second installment of The JD Set. Saccade won the Cork heat recently. You can read a review of the Dublin gig in the next issue.

The band's set was culled primarily from excellent debut long-player The Knife Thrower And His Wife which has just been released on Subplot Records. The band are off to London for some shows at the end of March before returning home to play JD final in The Village on April 29.

The JD Set now moves to Dolan's, Limerick (March 5) where Liz Is Evil, Redtwelve, Macrogrizzly and Henrietta Game will fight it out and The Roisin Dubh, Galway (March 26) where Sanzkrit, Go Panda Go, Tupelo and The Coonics compete for a place in the final.