Bluesy rockers Sheerkhan kicked off the night, playing a solid 30-minute set that got the crowd movin’ and shakin’; they looked to be having just as much fun on stage.

Lurch & Chief crammed their six bodies onto the stage, bringing the goods after a shaky start due to microphone technicalities. Their set really kicked into gear from track We Are The Same onwards and Keep It Together closed out a noteworthy performance.

With the bar set high Kingswood had to impress, luckily they had to do little more than swagger onto a smoky, awesomely lit stage and launch into their set to get punters on board. If that wasn't enough, most were won over by Sucker Punch and Micro Wars previewed early in their set.

There was everything you’d expect from a rock show, crunchy guitars, epic solos, anguished wailing, crowd singalongs, headbanging that could break necks and your fair share of bad crowd behaviour, most notably the one crowdsurfer that stopped Fergus Linacre mid-Ohio to cut a deal with security, promising to not throw him out if the rest of us were well behaved. That deal didn't last long.

Things were heating up down the front and Linacre wanted the rest of us to get sexy to slow-burning, hip shaker I Can Feel That You Don’t Love Me and we obliged. Kingswood fulfilled an audience member’s request, and played Wolf, becoming a set highlight.

Although their set was packed with hits like Medusa and She’s My Baby, it felt like the latter third dragged on, but the punters were troopers and kept dancing on through to the finale, which treated them well with Piece By Piece and Chronos.

The crowd left sweaty and without their encore pleas answered, but in no doubt that Kingswood put on an excellent rock show.