We Were Promised Jetpacks @ The Liquid Room, 21 Aug

To the uninitiated, We Were Promised Jetpack’s set tonight will likely come across as a bit ‘samey’. To those accustomed to last year’s debut These Four Walls, the Scots lads simply follow a rigid up-tempo colloquial rock template. Whatever your vantage point though, the Jetpacks give an exemplary performance in the newly refurbished Liquid Room.

As the second song in, Quiet Little Voices catches the crowd off-guard but it’s the only evidence of the band clocking one in tonight. New material pushes the quartet into post-rock territories before an end salvo finds them back on familiar and exhilarating ground, whilst effortless crowd pleasers such as Ships With Holes Will Sink and Short Bursts ensure fans are given plenty of second opportunities to get their dance on. There’s sporadic audience chatter about ‘bigger things’ ahead for the Jetpacks, but from here it looks like the band have found their home. [Darren Carle]