Shifting in front of a packed-out Haunt with all the ceremony of technicians carrying out final checks on the venue’s sound system, Teleman – a three-piece formed following the dissolution of folk-indie yarn-spinners Pete And The Pirates – were a study in unimposing politeness.

Their music, they might confidently feel, speaks enough for itself: singer Thomas Sanders’ vocals can be barely-there in their ghostliness, with his brother, Johnny, providing shimmering synths allied with Pete Cattermoul’s creeping basslines.

Their fans seemed to follow Sanders’ every word, which says a lot about his skill in succinct, almost exclusively romantic storytelling, and might also explain why the band have supported the likes of Suede and Maximo Park on tour.

Love poured down on him in 23 Floors Up - a guilty ode on love and fears of salaciousness from this summer’s hook-heavy album, Breakfast -and then enchanted, passed by and drowned him across the beautifully plaintive melody of Lady Low.

Christina, a muse on yearning and desire, built to a blissful and hazy peak.

“Close the shutters, make it black”, he sang on Not In Control, repeating the title mantra. If the music appeared to have entranced him, Sanders had taken his audience along for the ride.