Sheffield’s Mock Tudors knock out the kind of rumbustious rock and roll that is redolent of the sticky carpet in the back room of your favourite pub, bags of salty peanuts, and “Last orders please!” They’re playing Sunderland at the very excellent Pop Recs this September.

I only hitched myself to Mock Tudors’ charabanc earlier this year when I caught their up-and-at-‘em single ‘Hair of the Dog’. Powered by a low-slung bass, fiery riffs and shout-a-long chorus, it cast them as saviours of back-to-basics pub rock – the kind of which was last heard on these shores when Dr. Feelgood were in their magnificent pomp back in the mid-1970s. And – rather like the good Dr. – Mock Tudors certainly know their way around a memorable tune, as evidenced on their new album ‘Good Drinkin’ Times’, a release that is thrumming with infectious and boisterous energy and those anthemic melodies that are crying out to be heard in the live arena. Luckily for us, the band are currently on tour and they will be swinging by Sunderland’s Pop Recs this September to give us both (cask) barrels. Gonna be good. GM

Mock Tudors, Saturday 21 September, Pop Recs, Sunderland, 7pm, £12, musicglue.com/pop-recs-ltd