New Order, Forbidden Fruit, Dublin

New Order were the festival circuit veterans at Forbidden Fruit in Kilmainham.

As headliners, they had one great advantage over other acts on the bill: they got to play as darkness descended, affording them the natural atmospherics their music cries out for.

Bernard Sumner is never the most charismatic of frontmen. He says little, and even then can barely be understood. Now and then he divests himself of his guitar and shuffles awkwardly about the mic, but that’s as far as his stage craft goes.