Le Tigre @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 6 Jun

Le Tigre are back for their first full tour in nearly 20 years, following their amicable hiatus due to touring fatigue in 2007. The excitement in the room is palpable amongst a widely varied crowd. Kathleen Hanna has been a central figure in West Coast DIY culture since the early 90s, and tonight it shows: grungey dads in Bikini Kill T-shirts, still-got-it punks in their 50s, and teenagers, drawn into the band as many before from the enduring appeal of Deceptacon, a recent TikTok hit.

Problem Patterns from Northern Ireland get the crowd going with swaggering ease, swapping instruments to thrash out joyful vitriol, but Le Tigre come on in a much more orderly fashion. In matching outfits, they poise themselves equidistantly and begin, Devo-like, robotically gyrating to a throbbing drum machine. Video effects and lyrics are projected live onto the wall behind them, and the crowd waste no time in belting out the words to The The Empty, TKO, and FYR, a shouty triptych to get things started.

Then it's into the sweet, odd little songs that only bands like Le Tigre make: My My Metrocard, What's Yr Take on Cassavetes. How many bands could get the Barrowlands screaming a chorus about appraising the problematic history of an actor who's been dead for 34 years (probably the average age of the crowd)?

It's almost unbelievable that live Hanna sounds like she does on record (which, we know, is a stupid thing to think). Her voice is so full and distinctive above the band and the crowd it almost sounds double-tracked (which, of course, it's not). JD Samson provides the cool, angular counterpoint to her gleeful energy; she takes lead vocals on Viz and everyone barrels in behind her. Her final verse on Keep On Livin' makes Hanna cry on stage. Then Eau d'Bedroom Dancing makes everyone else cry to close the set. Then the inevitable encore of their two most perfect hits: Phanta and Deceptacon. Obviously the place goes wild.

Deceptacon is one of the most perfect songs of the last 25 years, and this is about as perfect a Le Tigre performance as you could ever want or expect. Thank the heavens for bringing them back to us.