A little bit of Christmas glitter was sprinkled on Friday night, but the goodwill didn't last long.

Decked in tinsel, tinsel and yet more tinsel, CSS bounded onto the stage like some other-worldly Slade, and then promptly bounded off again after just 40 minutes.

The reason? A shoe lobbed onto the stage, hitting lead singer Lovefoxxx square in the face.

The Sao Paolo six-piece then stormed off without playing their stand-out hit Let's Make Love (and Listen To Death From Above). CSS were, of course, just plain bonkers.

Standing for Cansei De Ser Sexy - which translates as "tired of being sexy" - they are the new Super Furry Animals of pop.

There was no room for recycled pine with these guitar girls and drummer boys for whom fake plastic trees and rubber bass lines are the true joy of the season.

Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex and Meeting Paris Hilton stood out among the madness, but their zaniness could only stretch so far and when the offending shoe invaded the stage, it was understandably a leap too far.

They left to a cacophony of angry jeers and groans - aimed, of course, at the idiot who threw the shoe.