"We build, build and build, then ease off and build again."

Fending off repeated requests for one of the band's biggest hits early on, frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor provided a quick guide how to create a memorable show.

And it was a formula The Dandy Warhols stuck rigidly to throughout their 90-minute set, opening with the slowburn of Be-In, before indie dancefloor fillers We Used To Be Friends and Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth.

At their best, the Portland four-piece created a lazy pulsating psychedelic organism, built out of two phased guitars, Zia McCabe's keyboard drone, muted percussion and Taylor-Taylor's vocals slipping in and out of the mix.

The ease-off came when they moved away from their successful triumvirate of albums - 1997's Come Down, 2000's Thirteen Tales Of Urban Bohemia and the lost 2003 classic Welcome To The Monkey House.

Although later songs such as All The Money Or The Simple Life Honey, with added trumpet, had their charms the sound felt more traditionally indie - with McCabe even picking up a bass at one point.

The roars that greeted closers Bohemian Like You, Get Off, Boys Better and set highlight Godless underlined The Dandy Warhols's true home is in the psychedelic fug.