HYPER Hyper Girl Lover should be feeling energetic when they visit Worcester tomorrow night.

The Wolverhampton-based band have enjoyed something akin to a mercurial rise to attract the attentions from ex-Prince producer Joe Ruffelo and a worldwide distribution deal with Warner.

They are one of the first to join Ruffelo's new Rough World label and are due to release a single in the new year, with the working title Don't Look Down.

HHGL manager Steve Harrington would be the first to admit the band's development lives up to their name.

Things have happened pretty quickly for us because the band have been together for hardly any time, relative to the cycle of the music business, he said before tomorrow night's gig with punksters Judy Speedway.

But he believes the imminent trip to America to begin promoting HHGL's sound once likened to Placebo, complete with a bit of on-stage cross-dressing - won't come soon enough.

Personally, I think the American scene is much more vital and it's all a bit too artificial in Wolverhampton.

For rock music, you do notice these things. There are venues closing down all over the country and there doesn't seem to be the following for live music as there is in the States.

The attitude is all different. Here, people still say to musicians 'When are you going to get a proper job?'

Meanwhile, Judy Speedway appear in Worcester for their second gig of the year.

Having played alongside the likes of indie heroes Feeder and 808 State, the Forest of Dean four-piece have been tipped for big things by Kerrang magazine.

They're putting the finishing touches to their second album the follow-up to last year's poisonberries before their last gig of the year.

But how do they cope with constant gags about in-breeding in the Forest of Dean?

We don't worry about it anymore we tend to make the first jokes about it. It's easier that way," said guitarist Rob Jones.

Judy Speedway and Hyper Hyper Girl Lover play the Marr's Bar tomorrow. Tickets cost £5 on the door.