EXORCISMS and trust games don't feature at most gigs.

Meet Colonel Mustard and the Dijon Five, the Glasgow band who take inspirations from acts as varied as Bob Marley and the Happy Mondays, and have just released their first album - a record full of reggae, pop, rock and country.

It also tries to capture the bonkers party spirit of their live gigs.

"At the recent Art School gig there was a guy in the crowd that was the double of Rick Astley," recalls singer John McAlinden, the man behind the Colonel moniker.

"I brought him up onstage and we broke into Never Gonna Give You Up, and we crowd surfed into the audience after that.

"There was a Harry Styles lookalike there as well, so we did an exorcism of him and got the demons out of him. Stuff like that always goes on at the gigs."

Given that the band carried out an exorcism on a Justin Bieber lookalike at a previous show, it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to deduce that the Colonel and his cohorts aren't too fond of the pop music that dominates the charts nowadays.

"It's nothing personal against someone like Harry Styles, it's about corporate pop," says John, who stays in Dennistoun.

"It's just that type of music that people need to be exorcised of and brought out of the music industry… The grassroots music scene is amazing in Glasgow.

"Even when you go further afield there's some amazing bands playing, but it seems the record labels are just going for the sure-fire winners."

You suspect that a record label might not be too keen to put out an album with the title Party To Make Music To Party To Make Music To Party To 1, but there's a more serious side to the band too.

The track Gay Icon features a spoken word introduction by well known human rights activist Peter Tatchell, and includes statistics about the lack of openly gay footballers. While the band like to place an emphasis on having fun, John weaves in some social commentary too.

"We try and put wee messages in there but you've got to have some fun with it," he adds.

"The most important thing is that people are having fun, but as a side dish a bit of social commentary is good."

That doesn't stop the band, who number 14 members at full strength, piling on daft antics.

"We'd do a trust game at previous gigs," says John.

"I'd just go out into the crowd, say 'trust game' and fall backwards. Hopefully someone would catch me, sometimes they would, sometimes they wouldn't…"

Having gigged in various bands since he was a teenager, it's only in recent years that John hit upon exactly what he wanted to do musically.

"Me and Craig, our drummer, were in another band called the Ping Pong Banana Show before this one," he explains.

"We wrote a song called It Always Ends In Tears With A Ginger Girl and that used to get a good response.

"What I realised was that the tunes that I was having a laugh with and that came out of random jams, those melodies just seemed better, and that gave me the blueprint for Colonel Mustard."

The blueprint for the album itself brought various genres together, as you might expect from a band who pride themselves on an eclectic style.

"I always remember listening to Black Grape's It's Great When You're Straight… Yeah album [from 1995] and every track just hit you like a party," he says.

"That was what I wanted on the album. There's elements of them, the Happy Mondays and Alabama 3 in there, but we've got our own thing too.

"I quite like that it jumps around - there's reggae, country, spaghetti western, rock n' roll and dance music all in there."

The group can strip things back when required too - they've played acoustic sets at recent flats demolitions in Glasgow.

"We've played at some of the Red Road flats demolitions and one of the Gorbals demolitions too," adds John.

"We wanted to go down and entertain the locals rather than make any money out of it. It's a mad thing to be in the background while you're doing a gig."

Party To Make Music To Party To Make Music To Party To 1 is out now through http://colonelmustardandthedijon5.bandcamp.com/