Sussex may be running low on aggregate after hosting two of the most gravelly-voices in the industry.

There’s no mystery why Duke Garwood and Mark Lanegan are collaborators, sharing a penchant for dark, brooding tunes and aversion to between song banter.

Garwood creates such a thick bass heavy sound one feared for the structure of the already shaky Madeira Drive arches – Honey In The Ear and Sometimes were even more intense live than on the excellent Heavy Love.

Fifty years and 50 albums on God’s green Earth, Lanegan’s voice has lived every one of those years hard and sounded all the better for it especially on the spine-tingling One Way Street soaked in whiskey and regret.

This was a rockier Lanegan, drawing heavily on 2012’s Blues Funeral, than the musician who last performed at St George’s Church in November 2013, but his voice remained the star of the show no matter how loud those guitars went.

Then it was a poignant Satellites of Love in tribute to Lou Reed, on Wednesday a solid rendition of Joy Division’s Atmosphere was added to Lanegan’s own impressive oeuvre including a barnstorming Gloria, a euphoric Harbourview Hospital and an ominous The Gravedigger’s Song.

“I’ve been dying since the day I was born” he sang on closer I Am The Wolf which pretty much sums up the appeal of both these talented but dark-hearted performers.

Five stars