Klaxons were afforded one of the special guest slots at The Great Escape and put on a show that made you question where they have been for the past six years.

The performance was full of the energy that marked their rapid rise to popularity and had a packed crowd tearing around the venue like adolescents at Reading Festival in 2007.

The trio have been working on new material since their second album, Surfing The Void, failed to follow the success of their Mercury Prize-winning debut.

The new tracks they played, especially lead single There’s No Other Way, appear to have taken the band back the start of their success. The sound shows clear nostalgia for early 1990s house and is most similar to their own cover of rave classic The Bouncer.

Passing over material from Surfing The Void, Klaxons showed that almost ten years of playing hits such as Atlantis To Interzone and Not Over Yet have made them very good at it.

Sparkling in shiny shirts and jackets, they almost had you convinced they’d become the big stars they promised to be. However, a one-trick pony will always be that regardless of how good the trick is.