NOT unexpectedly, my lovely children sent me cards for Father’s Day.

My son hoped I had a good day, and I did, so thanks. My daughter, on the other hand, went for a dangerous compliment. You’re cool in an elderly sort of way, her card said.

I’m glad to think she thinks I’m cool. But elderly: leave it out, as they say in Walthamstow.

What sort of elderly person drops into the punk-and-Goth Parish pub in Kirkgate of a Saturday night to catch angry-rock gigs from the Scaramanga Six and Eureka Machines?

Yes. I thought you’d be impressed. You can’t ring me up to tell me exactly how impressed you are, because right now, my ears are in for a service.

I am no expert in live music and wouldn’t attempt to play critic. Musical mates said both the Scaramanga Six and Eureka Machines were worth a listen. I took a look, and so they were.

Scaramanga are ‘aggressive, flamboyant and theatrical’ rockers who like dark and extravagant lyrics. Twins Steve and Paul Morricone, Weston-super-Mare boys with Huddersfield and Leeds music scene connections, provide the link between Scaramanga and the Eureka Machines, because Steve plays with Scaramanga and helped start the Eurekas.

Aggressive, flamboyant and theatrical are good adjectives too for Leeds-based Eureka Machines. Oh, and noisy.

It’s a fairly small performing area at the Parish, a sort of converted old workshop, and banks of amps make sure you hear the music in every fibre of your body.

The pub crowd is mostly young, some pierced and tattooed and black-dyed, but the audience in the back room on Saturday was very mixed, all ages, all styles.

There’s a sense that you’ve walked into an earthly version of the Mos Eisley Cantina, that weird bar in Star Wars, if I may be so rude.

Having said that, a gentler, more polite, nicer crowd couldn’t be found anywhere in Huddersfield, so appearances aren’t everything.