GREASE my quiff it's Gold Blade at Cheap Sweaty Fun's Christmas party next week, with Ivor Beynon, pictured, in support.

The freak show from Manchester bring their rock'n'roll soundtrack to TJ's on Monday December 23.

Ivor opens the show and is followed by The Welsh Pistols and Ten Benson.

Gold Blade are ideally suited to lead such a Christmas party, looking like the Blues Brothers in space suits (and the occasional pin stripe) and playing like Iggy Pop.

Their supercharged adrenalin rush is led by singer John Robb and his beaten up Telecaster with a vocal delivery that's more deranged preacher than slick frontman. Their album Do You Believe in the Power of Rock'n'Roll and single AC/DC are deigned to blast away apathy and prog rock.

"A lot of music lacks aggression at the moment, it's a lot more laid back, leaning to prog rock," said John, who is currently filming a ten part history of punk for television (more info: www.thrillcity.net/punk).

Rhythm guitarist Jay Taylor said: "We're interested in energy."

Ten Benson are a similarly heads down boogie kinda band with a penchant for rock'n'roll fuelled fun and debauchery.

This month they are taking their own brand of punk rock to Germany, returning next week for a string of Christmas shows from London to Newport to Cambridge.

The Welsh Pistols take the rock'n'roll soundtrack theme even further than Gold Blade with a set dedicated to the Sex Pistols.

Ivor Beynon is known and loved in Newport and South Wales as the one-man karaoke rock'n'roll machine making it against the odds.

While the charts might be filing up with boy bands and drama school Rolling Stones/Iggy Pop groups, Ivor plays seriously loud rock'n'roll.

His set is divided between sing-a-long tapes he performs to and a full live show featuring self-penned classic hits such as Rock'n'Roll Star and The TJ's Anthem.

The music and Ivor's all-Welsh image with sword, kilt and face packs, has taken him onto the pages of Kerrang! And Dazed and Confused magazines.

But Ivor's greatest exposure to date has been on the BBC digital docu-soap The Biz which Ivor starred in along with four other Welsh business men and women.

* Tickets to the Cheap Sweaty Fun Christmas Party are £5. For more info dial 01633 216608.