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With a quirky - but always musical - blend of ambient hard rock, funk, smooth jazz grooves and a twist of electronica, NQV is a recipe that surprises. As can be witnessed during a live journey from ambient epics Threnody and Black and Blue, through the funky Nice Boots and electro-blues of Juggernaut, into the heavy drum‘n’bass of Um and the oestrogen-fuelled madness of March of The Prawn Cracker, the band is as adept at powerful progressive riffs as it is at delicate grooves. Of course, the range of influences evident in the music is enormous - think; Ella Fitzgerald joins Tool, which now includes members of Portishead and Primus, throws a pool-party at Keziah Jones’s house, and invites the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Evanescence, Opeth and the Dave Matthews Band to all go swimming during an electrical storm. If that doesn’t make it clear, you’ll just have to come to a gig. The beginnings of the band as a basic song-writing and practice unit formed in 2000, when school-friends, drummer