This show, billed as a thank-you to fans who have stuck with the Young Knives during their attempt to raise their profile outside their art-rock niche, features a guest: a toy dog who surveys proceedings from atop an amp. Its presence is in keeping with the Oxford trio's reputation for running their careers along the lines of a 1950s boarding school, with tweed suits, superiority and genteel bickering all playing their part.

Despite a Mercury nomination for their 2006 debut, Voices of Animals and Men, and the adoration of an audience who howl at every caustic exchange between avowed rivals Henry Dartnall (vocals) and his bassist brother, the House of Lords (really), the band haven't quite persuaded the rest of the world to love them. Henry refers to the under- erformance of new single Terra Firma - "a Top 100 smash" - with real pain. And who wouldn't sympathise? The Mercury moment may have introduced more ears to their guitar-based jitteriness, but the Knives remain a minority taste.

Rasped by the portly House of Lords, crowd favourite The Decision pinpoints this group's appeal. If there is another person in the world who could croak its big line, "I am the Prince of Wales, and if all else fails, I am the Prince of Wales," with the same poignance as Lords, he is probably related to the Queen. Similarly, the stop-start new tune Light Switch wins you over by mixing yearning and smug entitlement, while their biggest "hit", Weekends and Bleak Days, closes the show with a wild psych-out, the brothers tearing off their suit jackets to vent their frustration at being privileged eccentrics in a world that doesn't care.

· At Big Reunion's Twisted Circus, Butlins, Skegness, November 24. Box office: 0870 151 8230.