"Where would we be without our leader, old big nose?" Mockingly disrespectful, Geoff Richardson, Caravan's violinist, flautist, electric spoonist and even acoustic garden clippersist (honest) had a point.

Richardson did most of the chat, but Pye Hastings' songs and voice provided the band's essence.

When his high, ethereal tones wafted around the intimate Old Market the forty- and fiftysomethings were transported back to 1968, the year the eponymous first album was released and an enduring musical love affair started.

Caravan delved back to their second album, If I Could Do It Again I'd Do It All Over You, performing the title track and Why Why Why (I Wish I Was Stoned Out Of My Mind).

He still has a leaning towards the long and wry, as on the title track of the band's latest album, The Unauthorised Breakfast Item.

With drummer Richard Coughlan, sporting a Kaiser Bill tash, Hastings is one of only two remaining originals but the band's "Canterbury sound" remained intact.

Organist Dave Sinclair, a founder member, has a new life in Japan but his sound and licks were meticulously copied by Jan Schelhaas.

They wondered from the stage why they have been lumbered with a prog rock tag. They were always more gentle, eclectic and... Caravan.