Another vague bucket list gig - I got really into their 2014 album Close To The Glass when it first came out, and admittedly never really dove much deeper than that, but I did love it. On record, the band has a very hermetically sealed effect, tight on the synths and quite constrained. Live, though, it’s an entirely different affair - the melancholy of The National fused with the synth grooves and extended jams of LCD Soundsystem, but all German, a maelstrom of energy. I am an old man (32) and am relieved to have got there early enough to have the rail to lean on, but there’s much bobbing up and down on my part. There are lord knows how many brass instruments on stage, all actually getting used. It just radiates fun. I was thrilled to discover that main support Oro Swimming Hour is Oliver Wilde’s latest project - Wilde being the first support act I ever saw live, back in my early days. Lovely three-part harmonies and two acoustic guitars, one song teasingly described as being heavy metal. A Happy Return is a meditative ambient act, a soothing experience before the mania begins.