A warm night and a cool venue set an atmospheric scene for John Parish.

Best known as a long-term collaborator with PJ Harvey, he’s also made his mark producing the likes of Goldfrapp and Sparklehorse, and as a soundtrack composer, working mainly in the realm of European cinema.

Tonight he showcased an assortment of tracks from different film scores, which are collected together on the album, Screenplay.

With the band squeezed on to the tiny stage, corresponding scenes projected on a wrinkled screen, it was an appropriately intimate, arthouse affair. While things were perhaps a little too understated to start, the mood was still enticingly dark. But as the show built, driving guitars, clattering drums and swirling keyboards upped the ante to provide a truly edgy and dynamic cinematic ensemble.

Part Sergio Leone wrapped up with twisted lounge pop, David Lynch and rock-noir, it worked too as a standalone creation – the visuals only ever serving as an artful backdrop to the music.

It was blissfully reminiscent, too, of long afternoons spent in small, hot cinemas watching subtitled foreign films. Gorgeous.