MO-O-ORE! We all know that common cry at gigs when a band walks off having taken the audience’s plaudits. After maybe 80 or 90 minutes of fist-pumping tracks it’s to be expected for adoring fans to want more. But three hours? Yes. VNV played a setlist of precisely that. And they nailed it.

Frontman Ronan Harris, as always the jovial but dead-serious entertainer, took to the stage with a light-hearted warning it’d be a long night, but wow, what a night it’d turn out to be. What followed was track after track of punchy feel-good synthpop magic, tracks like Nemesis, Legion, Illusion, Homeward and Gratitude.

Among it all was tons of superb interaction, Harris playfully peeping a fan’s policeman’s whistle, poking fun at the locals’ love of flagons of cider and telling the occasional swipe addict to put away their bloody phone (nice one, Ronan – who has ever seen, or more to the point heard, a good mobile live gig video on YouTube?)

Back to the music, things just got better and better in the three encores, fans being treated to a wondrous Nova, joining in for Beloved, and finishing off with Radio and best saved ‘til last, Resolution.

Hats off to VNV, while at times they looked like they possibly made an over-ambitious decision, they sent the hundreds who attended home pretty tired but thoroughly thrilled to have attended.

Owen Pearce