When a band is named Random Chaos, one expects to hear screaming guitars, see drumsticks and hair flying and feel their clothes shaking with the vibration of the speakers.

The volume was certainly loud (though the speakers were not large enough for the fabric rattling part), Jamie Worton's guitar hollered where he wanted it to and Flee's drumsticks duly flew.

But with Worton, singing a gentle lead in the initial soft rock segment of Friday night's concert at Redbones the Blues Café, including a version of Small Axe and Brown ending the first segment of her hard rock showing with a touch of dancehall (including a stage show style mix); 'yard' sounds were involved.

Some truth

And the substantial audience at the Braemar Avenue, New Kingston, loved it all.

Small Axe was not the only nod to reggae in Worton's set, the lady-less version of Random Chaos following with Remember (dedicated to people trying to speak some truth and "in a different way it is dedicated to those chatting foolishness"), where reggae took over from rock on the chorus.

In the earlier going, Fields of Gold was on the softer side of rock.

Brown's nod to dancehall from her statuesque perch on high-heeled black boots came before intermission in the full version of Random Chaos' set and after hard rocking nearly all the way.

No solution

A rare exception was a song which Brown introduced by saying "I have an issue with war". It was one of the slower songs, Worton putting heavy reverb on his guitar playing, including a haunting solo. And Dominique wrapped it all up with a repeated lament of "suicide".

She had made it clear at the outset that Random Chaos sounds "like nothing you've heard before.

We're doing a combination of jazz, rock and a couple funky things." She said that they would start off with a cover version to "ease you through the whole experience" and sent her voice into the lower register to deliver Nina Simone's observation "you know how I feel".

They rock it hard on subsequent songs; however, there were times when the vocals got lost in the music.