The night starts with Leeds four piece Pulled Apart by Horses and the house erupts. People jumping everywhere, orange (Holland’s colour of choice for Queen’s day) merging into to.. well, urm orange, creating a completely wonderful mess. Their raw, gritty sound inspiring the switch happy lighting tech to go as someone said “a bit bonkers” and suddenly everything was very atmospheric and an almost tribal mentality in the crowd. But then it stopped. Each band only have 30 minutes to make an impact and Pulled Apart by Horses succeeded.

Golden Silvers were next up, played and then left the attendees pretty uninspired. Catching up with Tim a la Filthy Dukes at the bar, he said the band were great last time he saw them and had a whiff of Paul Weller and The Style Council about them, but on the strength of this performance their was no evidence for the similarity.

A quick run back upstairs to catch the latter half of Stricken City. Katebush-eque vocal’s from front lady Rebecca moxed with jangily guitars made for an interesting but slightly dull set. The group concluded with newish single ‘Lost Art’, which was notcieably more polished and structured than any previous numbers, but the crowd was left unaffected.

Of the whole nights line-up the name standing out on the bill was that of James Yuill. His brilliantly camp orange feathered hat suggested he would intergrate well with the now 20-hour-in party crowd, however they now wanted beat and bleeps and his slow electro pop numbers weren’t doing it. After 10minutes of his set he just gave up and played 5 minutes of synth techno with a base so dirty it hurt the teeth.

The London Calling warm-up night was a bit of a wash out with diluted sets and a slightly strange mix of acts. The band, some what surprisingly, was the Djs-come-band the Filthy Dukes. Living up to their headline slot they shook off any preconceptions, geeky impressions and threw a “belter” of a set. Single “This Rhythm” was a definite highlight of the night with its synth 80s aesthics and really got the crowd jumping.