The Spinto Band are a bit like one of those cans of beans you get from the joke shop. A small, unassuming tin that looks as tame as a TV supper on the outside, but prise open the lid and a big, garishly-coloured slinky hits you in the face.

The band consists of six of the smaller people from musical history. Coming in at an average of about 4’10”, it's no wonder that when asked a question they stare up at you wide-eyed and speechless, mouths silently opening and closing like a fish out of water. Get them on stage, though, and all manner of weird things pop out of the tin. The lead singer spends a majority of his time manoeuvring his freakishly large eyebrows, whirling his strumming arm around in a circle and forcefully slicking down his unashamedly geeky side-parting. The secondary frontman gets up to even scarier antics, the most unsettling being wobbling his head around on his neck like a Churchill dog.

Despite their more than slightly affected performance, the Spinto’s set is as taut as a tightrope. Their set list, mostly comprising of tracks from their new album Moonwink, but including their hit 'Oh Mandy' from 2005’s Nice and Nicely Done, has clearly been learned by rote, as none of them so much as rolled a questioning eyeball towards any of the others between songs. The inter-track banter was kept to a careful minimum—probably a wise move, as a certain joke about “fathoms” falls flat on its face—and the sound quality is crisp and pure. If you were coming for a good rendition of catchy indie-pop songs accompanied by an assortment of performance tricks that had the faint air of asylum about them, then you certainly got your money’s worth.

A Spinto Band gig merits attendance – if not to see what it looks like when very short men try and use mic stands they can’t quite reach, then to give your support to one of the only bands brave enough to bring the Kazoo back into mainstream pop culture.