“We’re not used to playing ‘posh’ venues like the Komedia,” announced Fred Gregory.

Unfortunately for the band, the pressure of a waiting audience and a late start owing to technical hitches meant Porchlight Smoker probably took longer to relax into the gig than usual.

To begin with the diverse crowd - generously offered reduced-price drinks as an apology - might have been enjoying it more than them.

Once they all settled though their love of it all was infectious.

Gregory, Steve Bell and Scott Smith gave turns to a rich mix of instruments – harmonica, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and lap steel – skilfully producing their feel-good Americana with a hint of Celtic folk, and making it look easy. Their unpretentious easy-going commentary was amusing.

In the second half Clare Nicolas and Tim Cotterell joined the party with accordion and fiddle.

Lyrics were thoughtful if sometimes dark, as in Gregory’s A Day In Mid-July about mass-murder from new album Water Into Sand, launched at the gig.

Man In A Boat stood out, as did Hey Maya from Porchlight 2, its enviable claim to fame that Bob Harris played it on BBC Radio 2.

It’s clear they could pull off an even larger venue.