IN THESE days of reflexive litigation, when a person can and will be sued simply for brushing his side parting in the wrong direction, the phrase 'does what it says on the tin' crops up more and more often - of necessity, perhaps.

I refer you, in this instance, to Two Old Gits Play The Blues (Hope & Anchor, Bridport, Saturday), a refreshingly self-deprecating description which nevertheless seriously plays down the talents of the gentlemen in question.

We are talking about King Rollo - described by Paul Jones as 'one of Britain's finest acoustic blues performers' - and Dr A, whose playing led Tony Nightingale of Blues Matters magazine to conclude that it was 'some of the best blues piano I've ever heard'. Patently, these men are 'two old gits' in the same way that Da Vinci sloshed a brush around and the QE2 is a boat.

Their appearances reference 100 years of blues, 'from Robert Johnson to Chuck Berry, Pinetop Perkins to BB King. No one is safe'.

Commendably, the concerts also take in extracts from King Rollo's stage show The Tao Of Blues, a tribute to the roots of modern slavery in music and drama.

This show will be touring nationally in the autumn as part of Slavery Awareness for arts and education, but in the meantime you are heartily encouraged to catch Rollo and the good doctor giving their considerable all in the service of a thoroughly good time - and that's a recommendation from One Old Git Who Writes About Gigs And Should Be Put Out To Stud Any Day Now. See www.two-old-gits.com for more information.

Also on Saturday in Bridport, the arts centre is geared up for a dance night in the many capable hands of Orpheus and The Magic Drum Orchestra (Bridport Arts Centre, Saturday, £7/£5 concessions, tickets from 01308 424204).

Orpheus are a freshly-minted Bridport-based six-piece band comprising Simon Hartung (alto sax/keyboards), Michael Grew (trumpet/drums), Andrew Leppard (guitars/percussion), Ralph Cree (drums/congas), James Price (bass) and Jules Neubert (percussion), and their polyrhythmic originals are derived from soul, funk, Afrobeat and Latin jazz influences. The band will be joined on the night by violinist Bridget Pearse and pianist Philip Clouts.

The Magic Drum Orchestra, meanwhile, are a 10-piece percussion ensemble based in Dorchester and led by Ralph Cree and Glyn Bush. Brazilian samba, African and Afro-Cuban rhythms are on the agenda, and with top West Dorset DJ James Baker also on hand to keep the pot boiling, one would be advised to don one's stoutest dancing shoes.

Finally, the Retrogression events in Dorchester just seem to keep going from strength to strength, and the latest one boasts a genuine coup in securing the services of fast-rising Los Angeles rockers Killola (with Moontown and The Other Half, Borough Arms, Dorchester, £4 advance/£6 at the door, ticket details from www.myspace.com/retrogressionevents).

High-profile slots alongside Fall Out Boy and Less Than Jake have helped to boost Killola's profile in the US, and their impact is hardly lessened by the fact that vocalist Lisa R is widely acknowledged to be as attractive as it's possible to be in this life, Mr Lonergan and myself notwithstanding.

Tight and riffy yet wild and uncontained, Killola strike me as the nearest modern equivalent to the MC5. Their live appearances are legendarily cathartic, radiant with energy and inspiring an almost religious fervour in audiences everywhere. We're privileged to have them in the area on their brief UK tour, and it has to be in your best interests to catch them now before they inevitably go supernova.

As Stuart Maconie would say, 'what's not to like?' Classic Rock magazine describes them as 'on the surface, as warm and cuddly as a bra full of puppies Dig a little deeper, though, and it soon becomes apparent that each bite of the candyfloss is laced with razor wire'.

Find out more at www.myspace.com/killola - and make sure you get to the gig early enough to catch sets by The Other Half and the mighty Moontown.