The bass player is the spitting image of Nic Cester from Jet and when the first two chords of 'Rocketeer' emblazon all that is wrong with the faux sixties embracing a hedonistic late seventies "vibe" that seemingly punctuates the tired rock revolution, it would be easy to pardon my defeasance as I start to become irrepressibly bored.

Thankfully though, Mohair have the undoubted presence and industrious grace to pull tonight's show out of retro hell's painful Jagger-d quagmire and instead turn on an exhibition of inspired skullduggery that would probably make the chieftain of plagiarism Malcolm McLaren take note.

Whilst there is no doubt that The Coral's schizophrenic shindigs are ever-present in Mohair's vocabulary of tune construction (see 'Something To Remember'), there is also an air of invincibility in what the band are trying to achieve that makes it easy for the observer to look beyond the most obvious of influences.

Largely this is down to the sophisticated vocal gymnastics of Tom Billington, a dead ringer for Robert Plant if ever there was one, both visually and orally, and the whirling sopranos of Hammond prefect Alex Richards, whose swirling Mandar-isms ooze a timeless appeal collating all that was good about The Doors up until Rob Collins' untimely death circumcised The Charlatans' short but sweet rise to global domination.

Whilst it may be easy to navigate certain reference points during Mohair's set, I dare anyone to suggest an artist who has managed to achieve the ambivalent effect of creating a Led Zeppelin sucking The Doors' collective hotpants blowout as splendorous as 'Live And Let Live' while 'Brown Eyes Blue' merges folk's worthy rhetoric with rock and roll's hedonistic base ensuring the most unsavoury match made in heaven since Vic Reeves and the Wonder Stuff is well and truly devoured.

Mohair may not be the finished article just yet but their sporadic range of sixties beats, seventies harmonies and noughties attitude should stand them in good stead when the ultimate push comes to shove them into the limelight.