All the better for it too; with an eye for a sharp, driving guitar line the songs soar - like Editors if they decided to chomp on some Prozac once in a while. Or perhaps, like DWL’s robust and intense new single suggests, Vitamins.

Maybe it’s the comparatively bigger venue, maybe it’s the expectation but there is something missing from fellow citizens Milburn tonight. That spark, that urgency that marked them apart with their debut album now seems to have subsided. That confidence and a certain spring in the step to turn a good, competent gig into a great one has ebbed away.

The performance is still tight but sounds limp amid the cavernous acoustics and leaves the band looking as if they are going through the motions. Odd for a homecoming and a gig at which frontman Joe Carnall admits they are genuinely humbled.

Admittedly, songs like Wolves At Bay from second album These Are The Facts display a mature and accomplished side both musically and lyrically yet they slow the set.

Salvation comes from the likes of Send In The Boys which perks this temperamental set back up.

A final chance to reminisce is left to the encore as Roll Out The Barrel reliably incites that last-orders singalong...as it was before and a chance to remember what could still be.

Omar Soliman