By Will Wolstenholme

YOUNG Manchester rock 'n' rollers, Larkins, erupted onto Ramsbottom Festival's Smaller Rooms Stage on Friday night, instilling the crowd with a vibrant emotional experience they’ll fail to forget.

Larkins, hot off the back of recent single, Velvet, released on Manchester's own Scruff Of The Neck Records, blessed the audience with explosion after colourful explosion, their sound replicating a 21st century Led Zeppelin, a comparison they sought to achieve.

Their first track, Intro, is an aggressive rave of frequent dynamic changes and abrasive strikes, each chord a clue to the next and every beat a mystery later solved.

The song infects you with smiles with its unpredictable exhibition of dynamism and tempo. The stage has been claimed.

A sudden change-up to dance music seems disturbingly natural, as they swagger about the stage with confidence you can’t teach.

Singer, Josh's, lyrics are thought-provoking when most simple, reflecting the sound of the songs in a way he considers to be purposeful.

With such artistry set beside the funky drive of the dreadlocked bassist, the songs are complete with pleasures unknown, their riffs and melodies crossing paths like long lost friends unforgotten.

The band, soon to release their next single under Scruff Of The Neck Records, one of the festival's promoters, look to achieve a sound "bigger than the room", doing so untroubled, thanks to their raw and fearless dance-rock sound.

Larkins make people move with dance, emotion and power, leaving us in a trance, helpless to resist their dangerously seductive riffs.

They hit The Ritz on November 18 in support of Slow Readers Club, another band appearing at the festival. No surprise it sold out two months in advance.