Steve Harley might be getting on a bit but the Seventies chart legend still knows how to play a crowd.

Dressed in a striped shirt, the sleeves of which he rolled up when he wanted to play a heavier song, the Cockney Rebel frontman took us on a trip down Memory Lane with a night which included all the old classics.

Harley and the band got the crowd going with a mixture of slow and fast numbers, switching between acoustic and electric guitars.

When a comment came from the audience, he joked: "Don't ****ing heckle me! I don't want to get heckled in this town.

"I've got the anti-terror laws on my side. I'll have you forcibly ejected. You might not be 82 but I won't let that stop me."

The mock tirade was, of course, referring to the incident at the Labour Party conference in Brighton last week, when pensioner Walter Wolfgang was thrown out for heckling Jack Straw.

The joke put as much of smile on people's faces as one of the most played singles in British broadcasting history, Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me), which Harley first sung 30 years ago.

Everyone in the audience had heard the hit in 1975 and was taken on a happy nostalgia trip back to their youth.

Excellent musicianship and good sound quality made up for the somewhat regimented atmosphere of the Dome Concert Hall.