The last twelve months have been a busy period for Sydney-based five-piece The Preatures.

From joining the Rolling Stones on tour to their own successful tours of their homeland and the US, these Australian radio-friendly rock ‘n’ rollers swept into town with their focus firmly locked on delivering a performance that would grab the audience by the lapels and force them to take notice.

A point that was well made early on in Wednesday’s set when singer Isabella Manfredi took the opportunity to step away from the microphone and indulge in an acrobatic turn that saw her cartwheel across stage.

Large sounding new songs such as Ordinary with its rousing chorus and funk-flecked edges was a dance and feet-shuffling inducing number but The Preatures are musical chameleons who can change tack at a moment’s notice.

Although most of the material never strayed far from a 1980s grasping, standardised pop rock format there were moments where the magnetic pull saw them morph and incorporate slight parts of Cat Power’s country folkier moments, entice parallels to their Oceania cousins The Naked And Famous and occasionally crossover into Sharleen Spittari’s Texas-lite commercial and non-offensive rock.

Forthcoming debut album Blue Planet Eyes has already been a number one album in their home country and on Wednesday there were enough signs that this success could soon be duplicated on UK shores.