Sky Kirkham, Journalist

But as soon as a song starts, or more accurately as soon as Case begins to sing, all is forgiven and until the end of the song there is nothing there but the music.

"I think I was drawn to music before I even knew it."

As the music rises and falls like waves, or a series of near misses in heavy traffic, the elements of the piece – melodic and dissonant – come together in a deeply satisfying finale.

"I’d go so far as to say that one of the major tasks that we perform on stage is sounding out the room in an artful sense."

The songs are largely good, the comedy a mixed bag, but the links between the two are awkward at best.

Though an acoustic version of Gimme Sympathy is an anti-climactic end to the evening – following on from a blistering rendition of GoldGuns Girls – it’s an interesting take, perhaps even an improvement on the original, and shows a band still happy to experiment.

Sky Kirkham sees major festivals thinning out in 2014.

Melissa Tickle is in great form all night, making up for her sister’s missing harmonies.

Whether it’s that disparity, or the fact it’s a school night, the crowd doesn’t seem captured by the music, filtering out over the course of the two sets until there’s only an enthusiastic fraction of the original audience left as the show closes.

When the blindfold comes off, the shock of light from the exit sign is painful. Even as the room comes into focus, a sense of dislocation remains: confusion at the sudden influx of stimuli.