I'm on a bit of a run of gigs at the moment which is great up to a point and then it takes something special to disrupt the routine and make you really take notice.

Tonight may have been that something special.

Sometimes it's the unexpected that starts to build that feeling and Rudy Warman & The Heavy Weather were just that for me.

Hailing from the south of England they look and sound like they were raised on a diet of blues rock from the Deep South in the USA.

Starting their set to a pretty empty venue they soon pulled the crowd in from the cold and ended playing to a much bigger audience.

On to Kula Shaker who promised to play the album K in its entirety to mark the discs twentieth anniversary.

They actually had a vinyl copy and a record player on stage with them and Crispian duly put side A of the record on and away we went.

Starting with the excellent Hey Dude and Knight On The Town quickly followed by Temple of Light and Smart Dogs the album followed in chronological order with a detour for a couple of single B sides as the album was flipped between sides.

Crispian still cuts a slim, well-dressed, figure in dark suit and tie and performs like a man twenty years younger.

The band are tight, loud, and practically note perfect the whole evening.

When a band has been going for twenty years the crowd is usually made up of die hards, new converts and the casually curious.

Having spoken to a number of them I would have to say that this crowd had a far larger proportion of the die-hard variety and each song was greeted accordingly.

The stage set up of back of the stage projection screens and lights framed by side of stage K banners complimented the music perfectly and all contributed to a great night for Kula Shaker fans.

But for me it was Rudy Warman & the Heavy Weather that made the night that something special.