There's a nostalgic curiosity attached to seeing a band that have been knocking around for a while - 25 years in this case. A vocal section of the audience made it clear: They wanted the old stuff.

The Waterboys visionary front man Mike Scott, bearing a spooky resemblance to Ronnie Woods, delivered, but on his terms.

Reunited with fiddle player Steve Wickham, this reincarnation of the band, (there have been many through the years) jammed their way through an uncompromising set.

The tantalising glimpses of the spiritual Gaelic folk that influenced the seminal sounds of This Is The Sea were often overpowered by full-on rock, which, during The Pan Within, descended into pure self-indulgence.

The extended guitar solos may have found favour with the older male contingent in the crowd but they did little to enhance the introspective range of sounds associated with Mike Scott's music.

Introducing a Bruce Springsteen cover at the encore reinforced the generic Seventies stadium sound of the evening. The Waterboys might not have heard but the future is folk.