Everyone should go and see Status Quo at least once in their life – if only to remember rock music is about having fun.

From the opening riff of Caroline, the five-piece were greeted by an audience standing up in their seats, hands clapping over their heads and smiles plastered over their faces.

And this pattern rarely faltered over two hours, as The Quo turned it up to 11 and threw the sort of rock shapes usually only seen in front of bedroom mirrors with tennis racquets.

The choreographed moves didn’t feel overly slick, with frontman Francis Rossi adding an undercurrent of humour to proceedings – picking out faces in the front row mid-song and adding wise-cracks between tunes.

This being a tour to support their new greatest hits collection, the set took in the whole of their career – from the psychedelia of Pictures Of Matchstick Men to the 1980’s experiment of In The Army Now, to medleys of lesser hits.

There are few bands in the history of rock who could finish their main set with such a thundering trio as Down Down, Whatever You Want and Rockin’ All Over The World.