Being one of the most hotly tipped acts for 2008 doesn't mean Make Model can avoid the hard slog of their first tour, which means winning over an audience who barely outnumber the six-piece band and an atmosphere like a morgue. Still, guitarist Gordon Skene seems up for the challenge. "Tuesday night is party night where we're from," he says, cheerfully.

They are from Glasgow, the latest in a noble lineage of indie kids with floppy fringes and big tunes. In tiny singer Aimi Gold, they even have a vocalist in the absurdly cute Scots tradition of Altered Images' Clare Grogan, and who should similarly cause heart tremors in men several times her age.

Tottering with a gin, Gold's small but perfectly formed voice combines with Skene's. Sometimes, they sound like a Glaswegian Mamas and the Papas; sometimes like an old married couple's bickering set to music. Their glorious racket is as euphoric as you would expect from a band who formed as a kind of therapy to cheer themselves up. After a few songs of their melodic cocktail, it is even having the same effect on Nottingham. A "lovely little song about debauchery" encourages the dozen people present to attempt to crush the stage, before Gold further endears herself with a "special recipe" for shandy: beer, lemonade, and vodka. Maybe this concoction explains their songs' almost religious glee (think Polyphonic Spree and Arcade Fire). Alive Alive O sounds like a future hit single. During the equally terrific Czech Neck, which takes their sound stomping on the dancefloor, the band get so enthused that a broken drumstick flies out and hits the crowd. Next time, there will be a much bigger audience: wearing crash helmets, if necessary.

· At Joiners, Southampton (02380 632601), tomorrow. Then touring.