COUNTRY acid house music.

It seems like an outlandish genre, mixing two styles that couldn’t be further apart – but Alabama 3 pull it off with unparalleled panache.

They are not from Alabama – in fact they are from Brixton, and are responsible for the hit theme tune to classic US drama The Sopranos.

The nine-strong troupe will squeeze themselves onto the stage at The Brook in Southampton tonight for an evening of unrivalled |entertainment.

The band describe themselves as a “punk rock, blues and country techno situationist crypto-Marxist-Leninist electro-pop band” – a real mouthful but a description that couldn’t be more fitting.

They play the city as part of a two-month UK tour promoting their new album The Women from W.O.M.B.L.E Vol 2.

The band formed in the mid-90s when vocalists Jake Black and Rob Spragg met at an acid house party in Peckham and then decided country and acid house could fuse together – and work.

Fans of the band are in good company, with famous figures such as Ray Winstone, Bobby Gillespie, Keith Allen and Irvine Welsh ranking themselves as followers.