Enough time has passed since the release of his first and most popular album, Loss, that Colin MacIntyre surely must be getting on a bit, but you can't tell by looking at him.
Fresh-faced and still seemingly far from jaded, maybe there's something in his island upbringing that keeps him so well preserved in body and mind.
The set list, which MacIntyre oddly tweeted hours before the gig, took mainly from his oldest and newest albums. Songs from this year's City Awakenings were very well received, its stand outs being The Lights and the ridiculously simple and pretty You Can Get Better.
So often it feels that MacIntyre's primary and most notable talent is in the smart juxtaposition of weird and slightly unnerving sounds with achingly catchy and cockle-warming choruses, and that is certainly apparent in material old and new. But when he starts singing little a capella bits and pieces between songs, his earnest vocals seem equally worthy of commendation.
As he blabbers away between songs, he appears excitable in a childlike way: like the audience is his mother after an action-packed day at school with so many stories to tell. He gets downright giddy telling King Tut's about the Christmas song he's writing, before giving a sneak preview. It is going to be good.
The crowd seems more muted than you'd expect for big songs like Watching Xanadu, but whenever MacIntyre offers the microphone their way for a singalong, it's clear that what they lack in dance moves, they make up for with their lungs. It was an acoustic rendition of I Tried, performed in dead silence in the room, that is a particular highlight of a strong and often nostalgic set.
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