In the same good-time groove after 30 years, The Average White Band are sticking to their principles.

Workmanlike performers who know their strengths, they deliver wall-to-wall funk, softened by occasional soul-tinged harmonies.

Their new material, led by Freddy V's sax blasts, is cut from the same cloth as classics such as Pick Up The Pieces and When Will You Be Mine? (also featured at the gig).

The new single, Down To The River, is solid enough but could have been written in 1979.

Now shorn of their trademark full beards and dressed like accountants on their days off, AWB seem wedded to the last days of disco.

There was a modest crowd but the band created a lively atmosphere, building up to the well-chosen finale - the euphoric Let's Go Round Again from 1980, a staple of disco nostalgia nights.

I wonder why these Scottish veterans didn't write more like that? Blame it on the boogie.

Review by Andy Fisher, features@theargus.co.uk