Appropriately for a band with a well-documented love of nature, it’s very easy to miss the wood for the trees with British Sea Power.

So much has been written about their foliage-decorated stages, the unusual venues they play, their bizarre outfits and broken limb-defying antics during set closures that the actual music can be forgotten.

At this homecoming gig, part of a nationwide tour of fifth album Valhalla Dancehall, there was none of this paraphernalia. Did this impact on BSP’s reputation as one of the best live acts playing right now? Well, yes and no (and maybe).

For die-hard fans, the fantastic acoustics of Komedia meant that all six members, from Woody’s thunder-wrists drumming to Abi’s soaring viola, could be heard as crisp and clear as a summer morning in the Lake District, bringing Windermere-like depths to new tunes such as We Are Sound and agitprop anthem Who’s In Control.

Highlight of the night was another VD track, Mongk II, a wail of four guitars and Hamilton’s twisted vocals that was a shoegazing anthem wearing steel toe-capped boots.

There may have been BSP virgins wondering what all the fuss was about, however. The band don’t really do crowd interaction, believing instead that their blend of Pixies-like punk and Echo And The Bunnymen-esque leftfield power pop will win everyone over.

Without all the stage-diving craziness, and with a set that can now pick and choose from five albums, there’s a chance newcomers fell between the gaps of fan-pleasers like Larsen B – from second album Open Season – and the radio-friendliness of latest single Living Is So Easy.

But when your climax begins with the slow-churning, gathering tidal-wave of grandeur that is the instrumental The Great Skua, bleeds into the punchy, riff-heavy Carrion from debut album The Decline Of... and ends with the sold-out crowd enthusiastically hollering the “easy, easy” refrain during a triumphant No Lucifer, you can kind of get BSP’s point.