Fanfarlo are the equivalent of a nice boy being in the “friend zone” with a girl.

Attractive, charming, attentive and kind but missing that bad-boy edge that get’s the girl going, you want Fanfarlo in your life but not as that special someone.

The size of the venue is not one expected from a band that caused a buzz in 2008 with their debut album Reservoir with lush singles I’m a Pilot and The Walls Are Coming Down.

But having been tipped for greatness they seem to have been unable to kick on. Their lack of big-time success is certainly not down to a lack of talent as musically they are extraordinarily accomplished.

In the small, cavernous Green Door venue their arrangements of strings and brass behind the vocals of lead singer Swede Simon Balthazar resonated sumptuously as though someone was gliding a soft hand up your spine.

Each member of the band is equally talented at a range of instruments (none more so than Cathy Lucas) and perhaps it is this that’s the problem. They are a musician’s band. You can stand and marvel at the layered complexity of a song, each moment detecting a new harmony or note.

But there are no anthemic, tub-thumping – some might say simplistic – songs.

In the meantime, fans can continue to be musically awed in small quarters.