“Would you love a monster-man?”, went the lyrics to the Lordi song of the same name closing this most ridiculous of metal gigs, almost issued as a challenge to a meagre turnout of die-hard fans.

Swedish hair metallers Dirty Passion, in support, immediately tested this with their take on 1980s glam. Unrelentingly rawk poses, cliché partying Swede singer and cheerily misogynist songs with titles like Bitch and Ballad Of The Skank brought both the good and the bad of that era into sharp focus.

Unlikely Eurovision winners Lordi, though, left no-one in any doubt as to their credentials. A hearty broth of Alice Cooper choruses, Gwar stage silliness and White Zombie heaviness, the last night of the Finns’ tour was everything you’d expect from the horror-rockers responsible for the song Deadache.

With frontman Mr Lordi in fine fettle, channelling WWE wrestler HHH, He-Man’s Skeletor and Wizzard’s Roy Wood, we were treated to Hard Rock Hallelujah’s big choruses, the sweary Sincerely With Love and the Danzig-riffed This Is Heavy Metal.

Rendered delightful by demon clowns, harlequins and old ladies marauding as band members wielded buzz-saws, bat-wings and, erm, a phallic crotch-level smoke machine, this was great fun for all the family (or maybe not).