With a voice you wish would read you bedtime stories, Stuart Staples took the stage at the barbican last night to rekindle the voice of the tindersticks. What a wonderful way to spend a sunday evening being lulled by the tindersticks performing Tindersticks II for “Dont Look Back, a Barbican season of gigs with bands performing their best albums back to back.

Wandering in an hour late, on-time to see the Tindersticks come out on stage, I cursed our fashionable timeing at the site of an old guy, sitting on a chair in the middle of the stage, with an old wooden record player on his lap, playing one brilliant record after another. This was Dj nick brown, a disc-jockey in the old, and true sense of the word.

He was brilliant and a perfect warm-up to the vinyl sounding quality of the Mr Staples and his accompaniment.