It’s all too easy to label British pop-punk/ emo bands in skinny jeans as whiney, guyliner-scrawled, Americanised twenty-somethings with a need to vent their bottled up teen angst. However, this presumptive branding could see a number of decent bands getting lost or ignored amongst the drivel. Not Advised are a pop-punk band from Southampton. Yes, they wear very tight fitting jeans, and yes, they do sound like they’ve come from the other side of the Atlantic, but there’s a lot more meat in their music than in some of the wilted emo that is flailing around.Their new five-track mini album, Fight For This, only lasts sixteen minutes ”“ that’s sixteen minutes of fast paced textbook pop-punk; every track carefully ticks the boxes that make up the criteria for a successful anthem in the genre. James Thomas’ enthusiastic Patrick Stump-meets-Daryl Palumbo vocals are teamed with tough power chords, dainty, high-pitched arpeggiated guitar, gutting bass lines and fierce drums. Multi-layered vocals during the choruses bring predictable cheerful harmonies that call for a crowd to sing along. Some may call it cliché, but you can’t deny that it works.'A Red Light Situation' and 'The World’s Not Ready', the first and last tracks on the EP, sound exactly like something you’d expect to hear on one of Fall Out Boy’s first few albums. There is a reason why Fall Out Boy have become as big on the scene as they are: their songs are incredibly infectious; they’ll be in your head, whether you want them there or not. The same can be said for Not Advised. Hear either of these tracks twice, give it ten minutes and you’re quite likely to be humming one of the melodies.'Right Now' calls on similar indie-emo pop-punk from 2004. In the middle eight, spoken lyrics are recited over chants before the band tears into an explosive breakdown, reminiscent of early Taking Back Sunday. There is a cringey amount of “woah”-ing in 'Jane Says Left', but it is pop-punk, so that has to be expected, and the AFI/ My Chemical Romance style guitar solo redeems them.There has been a sudden boom in the number of emerging British pop-punk bands, such as You Me At Six, Go: Audio, Kids In Glass Houses and Attack! Attack!. Although Not Advised fit into the same category as these bands, they could certainly give some of them a run for their money, or, more likely, win a “who can make the pit go wildest?” competition.Not Advised on Myspace