At 7pm Enter Shikari begin their showcase of their sophomore album ’Common Dreads’. With only a smidgen of alcohol passing the lips of the audience and this early showing, some may have thought that this could lend to a sombre atmosphere, they couldn’t have been much more wrong. With indie scamps aplenty, the avid adolescent following of Enter Shikari were the size of a small sweaty army. Near on immediately, a whirlpool of flailing arms and half naked torso’s swirled somewhat aggressively around the venues floor.

And it was a humbling moment for the St Albans amalgamates, morphing their screamo, rock, drum n’ bass and techno together, and more importantly surprisingly well to my amazement. Well at least I, were to be the only one to doubt their furious beats. Rou Reynolds does his now highly publicized, unintentional impression of Mike Skinner sublimely well. The new songs are delivered with aggression yet superb tightness, none more than new single ‘Juggernauts’ that has the collage of young scrotes moshing like little shits around me, my watching eyes looking out for any pre-pubescent twat that may whisk me off my feet at any moment. But fortunately I was not to be pulled into the ungodly cauldron of sweat.

The drum n’ bass of ‘Zzzonked’ is a refulgent barrage of serrated beats and ‘The Jester’ has equal oomph in their set. I never thought it would happen but, tonight, Enter Shikari have categorically and resoundingly won me over with their hallucinogenic onslaughts and abrasive soundscapes. Why thank you boys, I will more than likely enter your world again!