Madeleine Laing, Journalist

The band cover well with improvised jazz jams and it’s still fun, but not as fun as the couple of extra songs we could have heard in this time would have been.

The second half of the set brings more experimental tracks from earlier album Microcastle, but by now we’re primed for anything, and closer Helicopter well and truly blows what’s left of the crowd’s collective brain out the back of its head.

Boyd’s swapped the more raucous fun of previous fare for a sharp melancholy, where beautiful, considered portraits of people and places spill abundantly in Boyd’s knowing and expressive voice.

This cuts the energy a bit for the rest of the set, but not by much, and by the time the last track comes around (a surprising but pretty spot-on cover of Wreckless Eric’s Whole Wide World) both the band and the crowd are grinning again.

These songs have long been live favourites and capture two different sides of this excellent band, so it’s both cool to see them get their own release, and exciting that this may be a sign of perhaps another long player on the horizon.

Delicate closer, I See Myself In You, which should have been an intimate and beautiful end to the night, is almost completely drowned out, leaving Laffer obviously disappointed in this night of excellent music marred by bad touring organisation.