We shouldn't be losing our minds to long, drawn-out swathes of swampy, sluggy roots. We shouldn't be desperately cheering for more after a marathon set that petered out at the end. We shouldn't be acting like everyone here knows each other from way back.

Each song performed to this hyped-up, neighbourly crowd on Friday night was extended to a mini marathon.

Most traversed large plains of sound, often broken up by the rich trills of bass trio Toby "Tony Chang" Laing, Joe "Hopepa" Lindsay and Scott "Chopper Reedz" Towers. Each morphed effortlessly into the next for a set that never once lost our attention.

After a grand opener of big brass for Slings and Arrows and Blackbird, they waded through long periods of roots and reggae so mild it could have been elevator music.

But the band had a knack of interjecting big hits of brass to keep it engaging, letting their energy and their instrumentality say it all.