As with Radio 4, !!! and other New York funk-rock darlings, The Rapture sound painfully fashionable on record. Minimalism is their thing, with watereddown beats and thin, highpitched vocals.

So you either have to turn up the volume or go to see them live.

Playing material from both their second album Echoes and latest offering Pieces Of The People We Love, The Rapture's post-punk guitar squeals and banshee-wail vocals revved up a gear to create an addictive beat-fest.

You'd never have guessed it was a Monday night, judging by the crowd's reaction to recent tracks Get Myself Into It, The Devil and The Sound.

Breakthrough single, House Of Jealous Lovers, would have fitted in perfectly at Manchester's long-gone Hacienda club, with its Ibiza-style, tranceinducing house beats.

With raised hands, the crowd clapped along like revellers hailing their favourite DJ. And, as singer Luke Jenner monitorhopped and sax player Gabriel Andruzzi flailed around with a cowbell, the atmosphere took on that of a clubber's paradise.

Ending with Olio, a hypnotically repetitive funk masterpiece, The Rapture definitely lived up to their reputation as a great live band.