After The Thought is another of those bands who turn out, on closer inspection, to consist of an avuncular, bespectacled boffin, twirling dials, twiddling knobs and producing earnest “soundscapes” for the cognoscenti to stroke their chins to. It’s jolly nice too, consisting of lush, layered soundwashes à la Tangerine Dream, but with some brutalist guitar slabs thrown in on occasions to prevent any would-be chillaxers from dropping off. Even better, he doesn’t sing, so there’s no danger of him turning into Hot Chip, a decent electronic act brought low by less than charismatic vocals.

Last Night’s Victory’s Charlie Baxter seems to have plenty of charisma, and he’s a good singer, but LNV are the sort of band who were just too busy rocking to hear the old news that rock is dead. So it’s one more time round the paddock for the same five chords we heard back in the Seventies, enlivened a bit by some big-bottomed keyboard riffing so that LNV come across as the Killers’ slightly less engaging younger cousins. Who knows, I might be wrong: apparently A&R types are running around signing poorly-fed boys with good hair and guitars, because no-one buys Adele any more do they? Anyway, they are a nice bunch, so good luck to them, but their shtick sounds pretty cretaceous to me.

It’s a testament to both my increasing decrepitude and the leisurely charms of Flights Of Helios that I did drop off during their set. The band boasts a fine lineup of Oxford scene veterans who create spookily pretty mini-jams to an appropriately spacey video show. Chris Beard and Phil Oakley share lead vocals, though the melodies aren’t very memorable, the strong point being the effortless melding of a double keyboard attack with a slow-rock rhythm section – the drummer is wonderful – to create an intermittently blissful experience. At other times, the tunes betray their origins as studio jams and the set doesn’t always escape monotony, but FOH are a grown-up psychedelic group who know what emotion they want to convey and have the chops to carry it off. Summary: A very good set, so long as I didn’t dream it.