Robin Black And The Intergalactic All Stars are pretty boys with tons of flash and panache, but don't go to their show looking for deep musings on life or intricate tunes with instruments you've never heard of. It's pure, loud glam rawk. Straight up.

The five souped-up T.O. lads are a good show no doubt: Black fires sparklers out of a gun held in front of his groin and demands the crowd call him "Daddy" while he gyrates in skin-tight pants that highlight his protruding bulge. But their rawk-heavy, in-your-face anthem tunes like "I'm More Feminine Than You" and "We Don't Love You Any More Than We Love Ourselves" are fired at the crowd full force with the amps all the way up and Robin Black And The Intergalactic All-Stars just end up sounding incoherent.

They always look beautiful though.

It's the eye-candy appeal of boys who've just been through the backstage gender blender and appear on stage wrangling their guitars on their knees while making sex faces and swapping spit with one another that makes a Robin Black show absolutely fabulous. Think of it as a mini-KISS show with smaller platform shoes and smaller stages ‹ although it won't be long until their shtick catches on. Black signed a publishing deal with EMI and Teenage U.S.A. Records and will launch their "I'm More Feminine Than You" single in about six weeks. Add a few more anthems, a couple more tubes of lipstick and a national tour and these glam gurus just may spawn a new glam movement. Whether it's taking a peek at Velvet Goldmine or Barbarella or just see a Robin Black show, the crowd is dressed to dazzle. For this first Ottawa show, the mods, the nancy boys and MAC junkies came out in droves for a night of glamarama, leaving feathers from their boas on the couches and dancefloor.

It looks like the band left a good impression behind, they'll be back in about six weeks time for another show.