When a concert is perfect there are two reasons why it is a major drag to write about it. Firstly, Vetiver were perfect tonight. Nothing unusual happened, Andy Cabic and his band flawless – nuff said. Nothing to see here. Secondly, sometimes something is so beautiful you want to keep it to yourself and treasure your own relationship with it.

But talk about it we must, and tonight’s show in this church on Euston Road enjoyed the most convivial and respectful atmosphere you will find, for a band wrongly regarded as being proponents of a continuing San Francisco hippy/folk movement.

Any notion that they are a folk band is undermined by them opening with a distinctly soulful version of Bobby Charles’s ‘I Must Be In A Good Place Now’, taken from new covers album Thing Of The Past. Then they shake this house of God with their own rhythmic stomp ‘You May Be Blue’, as well as summoning a vibe that is distinctly un-Godly with ‘No One Word’, complete with help from Basquiat Strings’ violinist Emma Smith.

On stage, the four of them looked uncharacteristically classy against the regal backdrop of ecclesiastical feng shui, but let’s not labour the point: Vetiver tonight were mine all mine all mine all mine all mine.

Barnaby Smith