So...the Inspiral Carpets in the rain. Not, you would think, the Glastonbury dream ticket.
Not that the incessant downpour is deterring front man Tom Hingley. "This is the best f**king gig we've ever done," he shouts, before the band kick into their most famous three-minute 'This Is How It Feels'.
It's bizarre to think this band of chancers once headlined Reading Festival with a troupe of majorettes. Now they're on the comeback trail - wider of girth and minus the bowl haircuts and young girls twirling batons, but no worse for that. Their take on 60s garage rock, dominated by Clint Boon's organ, remains unchanged and probably more in vogue now than in their Madchester heyday.
The likes of 'She Comes In The Fall', 'Find Out Why', 'Sackville' and 'Two World's Collide' actually sound great. Certainly better than most of their contemporaries. Hingley swings his microphone a la Daltrey, the ginger drummer gurns amusingly and Boon keeps the retro keyboard sounds flowing. They play their new single and it sounds like all the others.
They finish with 'I Want You', soundtrack to one of TOTP's classic moments, but unfortunately, in this case, without Mark E Smith.
Cool as f**k? They never were. As a nostalgia trip? Not bad at all.
