THESE hot, sticky evenings have made York feel more like Acapulco than North Yorkshire. So what better way to recall steamy nights in Mexico than a bit of flamenco guitar?

In Rodrigo y Gabriela you have two virtuosos, both with a passionate drive to their music, and this is a frenzy of an album from start to finish; a far cry from their subdued demeanour of just a couple of years ago. Out go the chairs and footstools, in come FX pedals and Quo like posturing on the monitors.

It suits them. Their newly found liberation is wowing crowds across Europe this summer, including a headline booking at The Big Chill in Ledbury on Sunday. The duo met in Mexico City while playing in a thrash band called Tierra Ácida and together they play a sort of Hispanic-inflected heavy metal on two acoustic guitars. While that might sound like a recipe for disaster, it’s not.