If your Christmas and New Year's Eve were damp squibs Electric Six's Danger! High Voltage should have jolted you back to life.

It is the first really great 45 of the year and made it to number two in the Top 40 after its release on Monday, January 6.

The silly mix of the kick drum from New Order's Blue Monday and vocalist Dick Valentine's Arthur Brown-like yelps: 'fire in the disco! Fire in the Taco Bell!' sounds like a doobie-duck kind of party-hire disco only really, really good.

Now Electric Six, pictured, are on tour, calling on Cardiff's Barfly this Sunday, which should hoist the single back up the charts a little.

Jack White of The White Stripes sings on the chorus to Danger! High Voltage but he's not on the tour.

Electric Six have denied the presence of Mr White on their single, claiming it's some unknown bod called John S. O'Leary but this is thought to a carefully thought out press ploy.

In fact, Danger! High Voltage has a history stretching back to 1991 when members of Electric Six played in a band called Wildbunch which they had to change after a writ from a local DJ.

"Back in the day, '91 I think, guitarists The Rock'n'Roll Indian, Serge Joebot and myself played in a kind of grunge band and Joe started playing the main riff, the 'Do-do-da-doe' bit, and we were like, 'Keep doing that!", bass player Disco told Mono last week. "And it all fitted so perfectly.

"It's always made sense so we kept doing it."

Electric Six hail from Detroit, also home of The White Stripes hence the mysterious connection.

Fans of both disco and Iggy and The Stooges, they'd always wanted to blend rock'n'roll and a disco beat, which Disco says came about when he joined in 1996.

"We'd just experiment, with Latino or bossanova or polka or whatever, mixed in with a punk rock song," he said. "But it's through disco we've kind of found our sound, for whatever reason. But dancing is what it's all about anyway."

So if you're in need of a good dance you know where to go. And if you go can can't be bothered to leap about, they've got that covered too: "We do as much jumping around and freaking out and sticking out our tongues and what have you as possible."

* Electric Six play Barfly, Cardiff on Sunday, February 2. The evening show has sold out but there are still tickets for the afternoon show, which should allow Newport pop fans to get home by train or coach. Tickets are £7. Dial 029 2066 7658 for more information.