Graham Gouldman has been touring this band for far longer – since 1999 – than the four short years the original line-up was active together as 10cc.

This five-piece line-up of Gouldman, indefatigable multi-instrumentalist Mick Wilson, stalwart and unfussy guitarist Rick Fenn, ever-more leonine drummer Paul Burgess and regular stand-in keyboardist Keith Hayman (for Mike Stevens) may be long in the tooth but they don’t show it.

The songs may also be uniformly old (45 years since Donna!), but the enthusiasm and utter skill with which they are still played remains blindingly wonderful – and a big thumbs up here to the sound desk, it was pin sharp throughout.

From Wall Street Shuffle to Rubber Bullets they played every 10cc song you could probably name… and a few more you probably couldn’t.

And it wasn’t always the well-known old favourites than stood out – so step forward Clockwork Creep, Baron Samedi, Old Wild Men, Somewhere In Hollywood (sung on video by Kevin Godley) and the band’s final, little-known and little-played single Ready To Go Home.

They had dusted off the classic Sheet Music album to play it in its entirety on the previous tour and certainly weren’t letting that rehearsal time go to waste, culling six tracks from it tonight.

Highlight for many people, however, was the 10-plus minutes of Feel The Benefit which saw them get into such a great groove that it was almost, hush my mouth, progressive rockish.

There was, as ever, a stunning, beautifully lit version of I’m Not In Love, the now regular a capella rendition of Donna, a marvellously extended Art For Art’s Sake and the sublime I’m Mandy Fly Me.

And if The Dean And I isn’t the perfect pop song then I don’t know what is. It also contains the greatest rhyme in pop history – “But in the eyes of the Dean, his daughter / Was doin' what she shouldn'a oughta”.

An excellent evening with a brilliant band.