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Player1 are a band of two halves. The set starts with a bright breezy summer song called Raincloud with its big sustained guitar solos and bouncing bass lines. The next couple are in a similar vein. Surrender is sprinkled with lovely percussive touches and is a little darker than the opener and has a fantastic sing along chorus.

Orange rocket leads the band into a more rousing stadium-esque tune that starts with drums and bass and ends in a huge sounding rock riff drenched in reverb and delay via filtered electronic percussion and another catchy chorus. Dead Grover Storage is an instrumental and it gives the lads a chance to show us all how talented they are on their instruments, there's Charlie's choppy guitar solo, Dan's drum solo, Eddies pop & slap bass solo with a humorous twist and all through it all, Dave's funky wah guitar riffs.

Vampire is next and as the title suggests is the darkest song in the set. It's a stripped down rock track but has this great sounding almost Beatles like riff in the bridges that manages to stick in your head. As usual the choruses soar and the song ends with this detuned piano thing blasting away at you. Brilliant.

Now the second half is full of great guitar riffs and melodies come flying from every angle. The drums stay tight, the bass stays rock solid, the pace picks up a notch and we're aurally assaulted by four of the best contemporary rock songs you are likely to ever hear. Emerald City rocks, it's the bands latest tune and it shows how hard they've tried to get this one right. The ending is insane pounding drums and feedback that gets reversed and played back at you at a ferocious volume it nearly knocks you back.

How Will I Know is a classic terrace chant squeezed into a three minute rock ditty that's as solid as anything you're likely to whiteness. Fortune Favors The Brave spits and shouts like an angry tourette and it's three minutes of pure adrenalin the whole time the hooks are pulling you in and making you want to dance.

Penultimate track is Game Over, another blistering rock track that pulls no punches. It stops and starts on a pin, the band loving the ability to flex it collective muscle and they use it to knock you down with killer riffs and drum fills at every opportunity.

Finally, the show comes to and end and the finale is a bit of a surprise. The Corgi's Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes gets the Player1 makeover and it's stirring, rousing beautiful, dark and heavy all in one. It's like a master class in how to do covers and it's brilliant.