The last time Glasgow's Camera Obscura played in Brighton was seven years ago, in front of 14 people.

In front of a sold-out crowd, singer/songwriter Tracyanne Campbell confessed in her strong Glasweigan tone that the occasion had seen her "greetin' in the toilets beforehand because nobody liked us.

Now look at us!"

Perhaps it was the reluctance to face another empty hall which kept the six-piece hiding away until a slow handclap from an impatient audience encouraged them on to the stage at long past 9.30pm.

But all was forgiven as they launched into album favourite Come Back Margaret, in a set mostly comprised of tracks from breakthrough third album Let's Get Out of This Country.

Aside from the diminutive, mushroom-haired Tracyanne, the band's appearance wasn't what you might expect from a group which inspires a following largely made up of skinny, pale-skinned indie lovers.

This is a band which has spent ten years fighting for commercial success and it showed in the many receding hairlines and expanding waistlines among the musicians.

That success may have come at a price too, as Tracyanne admitted while introducing Country Mile.

The song is currently soundtracking a Tesco advert probably being beamed into millions of homes at this very moment.

Whether it was an accusation of selling out which led a fan to throw a beer over the band's guitarist's new shirt midsong is debatable - as Tracyanne said: "When we wrote it we didn't think this song would cause a riot".

The band weren't put off, though, pulling out a great, sonically enhanced set closer with closing track Razzle Dazzle Rose, and returning to the stage for two encores - a slowed-down, acoustic version of ABBA's paean to life on tour, Super Trouper, and old favourite Eighties Fan, as requested by a fan at the front.