A Saturday night spent above one of Brighton’s hipper hangouts felt oddly, and somewhat wonderfully, more like having a few drinks round an old friend’s place.

With a small turnout and just the joint headliners to back each other on stage, this was a memorable performance in an intimate setting.

Loosely representing the Celtic parts of the UK, Welshman Stephen Black (AKA Sweet Baboo) and Scottish former Fence records manager Johnny Lynch, here as The Pictish Trail, unusually opted for two sets with both performers playing each other’s songs in unison.

With references ranging from Bruce Campbell in The Evil Dead films through to campervan holidays with a dog named Mable (accompanied by hilariously inappropriate sound effects from Lynch), Sweet Baboo’s piano-pop storytelling with unstoppably syrupy tunes, was irresistible.

Less quirky, though just as affecting, was The Pictish Trail’s take on folk. Emotive, polished vocals on songs about Lynch’s native Hebridean island of Eigg, seafaring and, erm, the movie Fargo, were punctuated by nicely hopeful psychedelic electro.

Another pairing trying this would not have worked, though this duo’s sonic and humorous similarities as well as natural chemistry melded beautifully for an utterly charming voyage through romantic nostalgia and rural poetry.