When Will I Be Famous: Delays, Barfly, London <br></br>Ambulance, Barfly<br></br>Radio Vago Mean Fiddler, London<br></br>Minus, Barfly, Logh Dublin Castle, London

Galumphing Hampshire lads who inexplicably sport matching sweaters, the Delays whiff of "Battle of the bands: regional heat winners". But their single "Nearer Than Heaven" is a radio treat with its soaring chorus in the best tradition of the British pop that everyone likes but no one buys. None of their other tunes get near, as they clumsily attempt every Nineties style without ever finding their own, though singer Greg Gilbert has a fine and versatile voice.

New York's Ambulance sit outside the city's current fashion for jerky dance-rock. They're a more measured, traditional outfit, rarely exciting, occasionally even bland, and sometimes positively schizophrenic. (Limp faux-reggae beats? Pur-lease!) But their best tunes, featured on a current EP that has been warmly received, manage to evoke the better moments of Badly Drawn Boy. You will hear more of them, probably while stuck in a traffic jam.

Radio Vago (pictured) were voted best new band by readers of their local listings mag, the LA Weekly, which may come as a shock to tonight's victims of their relentlessly tuneless meanderings. The five women responsible appear to have met in the dorm of a liberal arts college, but, judging by Adrienne Pearson's, er, melodically challenged vocal technique, we can assume that music wasn't on the curriculum.They are goths. Oddly, their records are far better than this drab performance.

Minus have been around for a couple of albums, but the hardcore antics of their audiences saw them bumped off the prestigious Icelandic circuit. Blessed with a great drummer and a greater name (pronounced "me-noose") they're currently attempting to establish themselves as a viable rock act, "the Icelandic Queens of the Stone Age", according to a friend. They're not that good, but their singer wears leather kecks and a leopardskin shirt, they have a song called "The Boys of Winter" and forthcoming album Halldor Laxness (named after a Nobel prize-winning author,) is appealing.

Once LOG, then Log, and now Logh (which could be pronounced "Low", like everyone's favourite American slowcore band), these four Swedes produced a stoner's choice in last year's debut album, Every Time a Bell Rings an Angel Gets His Wings, just reissued here. But their well-judged set proves there's more to them than mere introversion. Current single "Ghosts" is a Peel favourite, while their restrained dynamic shows real promise for their next record. They won't change your life, but they might enhance it, subtly.