As any regular concert goer will know, there are very very few acts that can get away with a set that goes beyond the 90-minute mark. That sort of length is reserved for the Springsteens and McCartneys of the musical world, not the Magic Numbers and especially when most of your material is from an album no one’s heard yet.

In fact, the reason that Romeo Stoddart and Sean Gannon and their sisters Michelle and Angela are crammed into the Jericho Tavern is to road test their new songs. This is an opportunity they take far too literally; at least three times the band start a track only for frontman Romeo Stoddart to call a halt and make them do it all over again. The new material is musically as you were, thankfully. That means there’s no talk of a concept album about the last days of Rome and no 20-minute epics, just 11 further songs that sound like the last 30 years haven’t happened. When the band play crowd favourites like This Is A Song, I See You, You See Me and Love Me Like You, the new songs blend in.

Sometimes this is charming and sometimes it’s grating, but it is extremely consistent. Each song has its summery guitar chords, cooing backing vocals, lyrics of lovelorn yearning and a relentlessly cheery delivery. The only tangent, and the show’s highlight, is the band’s performance of Fear of Sleep, which first appeared as a hit for the Chemical Brothers. More arresting than the rest of the set, it shows that perhaps there’s more variety to the Magic Numbers then they choose to show.

With the new album due early next year, the band are sure to be in for some excellent festival slots, and they’re perfect, with every one of their tracks sounding like summer bottled. It would be nice to see the slightest hint of progression next time they hit the studio.