OXFORD rockers Young Knives played a free city centre gig in front of about 100 fans last night.

The band played for half an hour at HMV, in Cornmarket Street, to promote their new single Up All Night. The trio, who recently dropped the prefix 'The' from their band name, played six songs including Decision, Terra Firma and She's Attracted To.

Lead singer Henry Dartnall said after the show: "We haven't played together live for about a month, and it was a good warm-up for our show at the London Astoria.

"It's always nice to play in front of our home crowd and the new stuff seemed to get a good reaction."

Ben Phillips, 20, from Abingdon, said: "It was really good to see them in such a small space again."