THIS is not Spinal Tap. This is Young Heart Attack, the Texan love child of AC/DC and The B-52's Kate Pierson.

Their hard-livin', heavy-lickin' music is "so hot and horny it should come wrapped in a fire blanket", says London listings bible Time Out. "They're more rock than a geologist's wet dream," reckons Fibbers supreme Tim Hornsby.

Prepare to sweat like a Sumo wrestler at Fibbers on Tuesday, in the face of this fireball of The Who, Led Zep, MC5 and The Stones with The Shangri-Las, Tammi Terrell and The Supremes on backing vocals.

Young Heart Attack are built on the axis of vocalists Chris Hodge and Jennifer Stephens, a partnership made in 'rawk' heaven (postal address, Austin, Texas), and yet Jennifer was initially a reluctant denim rock queen.

"I didn't think I wanted to be in a band at all. I'd mainly sung in the shower; I'd been in the high school choir and I was in a production of Gypsy - I was one of the strippers! - so I wanted to do it just to check it out but now I love it," she says.

The initial plan was for Jennifer to provide only backing vocals. "They were going to have two girls at first but I thought 'We're not having that, it wouldn't be to my benefit'. Then they said 'Let's see if she can balance up with Chris' voice on the track Tommy Shots'."

Three years later, and Young Heart Attack's debut album, Mouthful Of Love - ten lacerating tracks in only 34 minutes - should be following The Darkness in leading the revival of gloriously OTT rock.

"It's important that we have me up at the front with Chris," says Jennifer. "It's something for everyone. Girls can look at me and say 'Cool, there's a girl in the band', and guys may look at me in a different way. Then there's all that sexual chemistry."

Levi's Ones To Watch presents Young Heart Attack, The Mooney Suzuki, Lowfive, Fibbers, York Tickets: £7 advance, £8 door.

Updated: 08:45 Friday, June 04, 2004