Sold-out gigs are perhaps the most desirable tonic for acts facing turbulence.

Last week, Honeyblood’s drummer, Shona McVicar, left the band – a situation perceivable as calamitous given that she made up half of its members.

But if there was a hint of chaos tonight, it was only in singer-guitarist Stina Tweeddale and swiftly-appointed new foil Cat Myers’ notably late arrival to the stage, as well as a prolonged bout of crowd-surfing which left one fan wilfully hanging from the lighting.

The songs come from their forceful, sometimes bitter debut album, released in July and played almost in its entirety here.

On All Dragged Up, Tweeddale’s rasp beseeched dependability from a lover – a common theme of her lyrics – in a groovy piece of punk drawing a mighty beat from Myers beneath echoey vocals.

“It’s all been done before,” Tweeddale seethed above a slab of grunge delivered straight from the 1990s, before scorning love lost in her native Glasgow on the sullen (I’d Rather Be) Anywhere but Here.

Their tone is typified by next single Choker, based on Angela Carter’s murderous The Bloody Chamber and carrying the deathly imagery to match.

Volatility, it seems, suits Tweeddale’s incendiary tales.