Bombay Bicycle Club took to the Brighton Dome stage in phenomenal fashion on Tuesday night – thanks in part to the two enthusiastic and impromptu dancers in the audience who got the crowd riled up in the moments before the band appeared.

The spine-tingling and wistful sounds, led by Jack Steadman’s distinctive tones and given depth this time around with an accompanying female voice, raged with hard, head-banging riffs through to peaceful ponders on the keyboard.

“That’s enough of this quiet stuff. Let’s start the dance party,” said Steadman, as the experimental beats and drops that have featured in their music since they were school leavers became more prominent – the band seemingly growing in confidence in the sound they’re trying to achieve.

Never a slave to a structure – proven on tracks which leapt between tempos such as I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose – the set crescendoed into a dance frenzy.

Were the leaps between quiet and loud; ballads, rock and dance, symptomatic of a lack of direction? Of confusion as to what the band’s sound is?

Perhaps it was simply a demonstration of versatility among a talented and adventurous group of musicians.