Live music: St Etienne - National Concert Hall, Dublin

4/5

For all its down-tempo moments, Saint Etienne’s 1991 debut, Foxbase Alpha, is an album aglow with a pop energy, buoyed by the insistent rhythms of house music and the then nascent trip-hop genre.

So, as wonderful as it is to see the London band performing the album in its entirety, there is initially something a little sedating about enjoying it from the confinement of our seats. Even at its most mellow, this is music to shuffle about to, shoulders bobbing, heart on fire