With their self-titled debut album storming into the charts at Number One and stateside-success seemingly beckoning, 2013 has been a pretty good year for The 1975.

No surprise then that Brighton’s Concorde 2 was packed out and pumped up as Manchester’s current favourite four-piece took to the stage.

With the stark neon back-lighting, bare-chested guitar playing and the obligatory lone crowd surfer, there were rock clichés aplenty, but the band’s eclectic blend of synth-pop and indie rock still hit the sweet spot more often than not.

Set opener The City, breakthrough single Sex and summer anthem Chocolate were every bit as pulsating live as they are on record.

Surprisingly, perhaps, it was actually the slower-paced mid-set Robbers that turned out to be the night’s real scene-stealer. Laid bare, lead singer Matt Healy’s voice had a raw, powerful and genuinely compelling quality.

Much has already been made of the band’s 1980’s influences and with their lyrical obsession with sex, drugs and dodging the cops in evidence throughout, there was certainly more than a whiff of Breakfast Club for the 2013 teen about this gig.

But frankly it was no less enjoyable for that – The 1975 were seductive, addictive and damn good fun.