Throwing Muses: Leicester University, Leicester

IT MAY BE a tad predictable to criticise Throwing Muses for not being so good without Tanya Donelly, but there's something missing from their sound tonight, and no prizes for guessing what it is. The album didn't obviously suffer from Tanya's absence, but live, without her intricate guitar melodies and eccentric harmonies which have always made the Muses' songs so individual and addictive, they sound like a pale imitation of their former selves.