I saw them support Stiff Little Fingers at Newcastle University a few years ago and they weren't at all bad.

It's taken five years for them to put together this debut album, though, as sod's law would have it, one member quit as it came out, making them a three-piece.

You Sold Your Records (1983) is a traditional live set opener, and a catchy pop-punk choice to get the album underway.

Thereafter the band dabble in new wave, post-punk and garage, with only one of the 15 tracks, the punky thrasher Lick My Hoop, not their own.

Leicester's choppy guitar sound reminds me a lot of The Members or The Boys, while Building – which vies with the opener and the Welleresque Soul Into The Sky for best song on the record – sounds like Talking Heads.

All in all, Panic Now! is a tidy album in which you'll find something different every time you listen to it, let down only by the production, which is a bit lo-fi at times.

With main singer-songwriter Andy also pursuing a solo career, I just hope The Cheesemakers' first album doesn't also turn out to be their last.