Five years after it was launched by the indefatigable Paul Lester, the Guardian's Band of the Day column has gained a live incarnation. Reflecting the feature's broad musical sweep, this packed showcase for emergent talent was wildly eclectic.

The US/UK duo Big Deal impressed. Clutching guitars, Kacey Underwood and Alice Costelloe scratched out skeletal Velvet Underground-indebted songs cocooned in a fuzzy haze of FX. It looked likely, however, that 18-year-old Costelloe's aloof, Nico-like cool was due to being paralysed by nerves.

Radio 2 is championing the teenage Welsh singer-songwriter Jodie Marie, and her proficient, full-voiced set of Duffy-style retro-soul implied it is an appropriate home for her. They may also take to the charismatic Josh Osho, whose slightly glib soul mannerisms and exhortations to positivity recalled a young Seal.

The atrociously named Boscombe three-piece Bos Angeles looked like a youth club band, an impression that was reinforced by the loud heckling of their tipsy, fresh-faced mates. They swaddled their classicist surf-pop in waves of reverb, but songs like Days of Youth and Beach Slalom shone through. Singer-songwriter Murray James betrayed his youth by politely requesting Twitter followers between songs, but his Rod Stewart/Joe Cocker rasp and gnarly anthems such as Protect Me hinted that he could grow into a formidable blues man.

The headliners Worship are skilled archaeologists of synth-driven 80s doom-rock in the manner of Editors and White Lies. An intimate showcase is not the natural home for their arena-friendly machinations, but the motorik pulse of their better songs, such as Collateral and House of Glass, evoked the serene gloom of Depeche Mode, and you suspect they will make a lot of festival crowds very happy this summer.

• Jodie Marie plays the Jazz Café, London on 7 February. Box office: 0844 847 2514. Josh Osho plays Borderline, London on 9 February. Box office: 0843 221 0100. Murray James plays Enterprise, London on 13 February. Details: camdenenterprise.com