Sometimes it’s not said enough: women fucking rock. It’s been too long since Brody Dalle has graced the UK, and the punk heroine made way to our shores with not only a solo project, but an astounding support band in tow.

The Beaches (★★★★) are a tenacious bunch who sonically have the audience’s attention. Team in their high-octane energy, these ladies appear a rockier HAIM with a colourful, playful twist. Synths and electronics play backdrop to their brilliant brand of musical aggression, proving one of the best supports to catch in a long time.

There was no competition, though, as years worth of anticipation leave people clamouring for Brody Dalle (★★★★★). The Distillers, Spinerette, her current solo project – she’s a mine of musical brilliance, and as she roars with a tenacity a 60-a-day-smoker could only dream of perfecting, it’s clear that she cannot be tamed.

Dousing the evening with ditties from her upcoming Diploid Love, including Meet The Foetus / Oh The Joy, it was clear that every project in Dalle’s repertoire kicks some real ass in a live setting. It is, unsurprisingly, those songs plucked from her past bands that throw the Garage into its biggest lurches of anarchy.

Spinnerette‘s Ghetto Love proved a highlight, as The Distillers hits kept the night at an unrelenting pace – Die On A Rope, Dismantle Me, Sick Of It All are the perfect punk cocktail. Regaling the crowd with stories of how she’d been walking around that day and found the Scottish people some of the nicest in the world, she was more than happy to pay them back with the gift of rock.

Short and sweet, she clocked in at just under an hour without an encore, but it was still enough to leave everyone more than happy.