This weekend sees Plan B's 'festival of the year' taking place in sunny Birmingham and I'll be making my fourth trip to Supersonic. Rain is forecasted and funds are tight but regardless of those irrelevant aspects, the home of heavy metal is seeing a VERITABLE WEALTH of incredible bands descend,

In case you missed it my interview with Lisa and Jenny AKA Capsule is here. In the meantime, before everyone starts moaning about the Battles/Harvey Milk clash, here are my top 10 bands to watch this weekend. In no order.

1.) Cutting Pink With Knives - It's their last UK show, and beyond even the obvious reasons I have for being sad about them splitting up, their set (which is in fact the first of the whole festival) will no doubt be typically fun and filthy. But tinged with the melancholy of their demise. Sad times.

2.) Harvey Milk - Their legends and all that but I just want to wheel out my story about getting chatted up by one of them in a bar in New York before a High On Fire gig while he was waiting for his buddy Joe Preston.

3.) Dalek - Reppin' the hip-hop, Dalek might not be quite on the same form as they were with their album 'Absence', but to get blasted with some dense, wall of sound phat beats is always lovely.

4.) Efterklang - Having missed the Danes on a number of occasions, not even the clashes with Thrones and Beestung Lips will hold me back from another lost opportunity now.

5.) Parts & Labor - The good thing about festivals like Supersonic is they can add as a catch-all for bands you really should've seen by now but keep missing. P&L are one of those bands.

6.) Errors - The abundance of bands with one word names beginning with 'E' is probably above the national average at Supersonic. Errors are Mogwai's new chums and if they're alright by Mogwai they're alright by me.

7.) Earth - Earth are carrying the torch for the Sunn/Boris/Earth holy trinity this year at Supersonic. You could place bets on one of these playing, or at least an incarnation of an O'Malley band in some shape or form. Earth's last album "The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull" was completely perfect and hopefully they'll sound just as good this weekend.

8.) Guapo - Just another band with a confusing name (this is not EL Guapo), the much under-appreciated Guapo were essentially made for Supersonic.

9.) Rolo Tomassi - Having just signed with Hassle Records and taking their first steps out of the Holy Roar stables, it's onwards and upwards for Rolos, and by this time next year they'll be headlining Glastonbury so watch them now while they're small!

10.) Cath & Phil Tyler - Supersonic has always had folk leanings, which shouldn't be held against it as Tunng have been one of the highlights in the past, but this year it'll probably down to Cath and Phil (just like the couple off Eastenders??) to fill that space.

Playlist: Rolo Tomassi, Flying Lotus, Errors

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