Given that it’s a genre still in its relative infancy, it has becomes really quite difficult to do anything remotely interesting with dance music. Nu rave came and went in a flash, electro clash was over before it started and all those who are interested are currently pinning their hopes on rave breaks. But for every jobbing rock and roll band, you have your Radioheads, and in dance music, that’s what Saul Milton and Will Kennard, the duo more commonly known as Chase and Status, are. They’ve recently enjoyed seeing their last single, End Credits, go top ten as well as venturing into production on new albums by megastars Rihanna and Alexandra Burke.

From this the duo have picked up quite a few new devotees and walk out to a packed venue, backed by a drummer and longtime collaborator MC Rage. The next hour and a half is then filled by one of the most brutal and intense live shows you’ll see this year and you can forget your clichéd visions of all dance music fans as blissed out, pill-popping revellers. Chase and Status’s tracks are hard, aggressive and only use euphoria to serve as a prelude to their uncompressing, jagged breakbeats. The duo are helped out vocally at various points by Tempa T in person, and on video screens by Kennard and recent chart sensation Plan B. Their set whips by in a frenzy, the crowd’s arms held constantly aloft, with the jarring Is It Worth It?, the exhilarating Pieces and the brain-battering beats of Street Life causing absolute pandemonium on the swaying dance floor. They close with their remix of Nneka’s Heartbeat, which features a bass line so loud and brash that the floor is actually shaking from the vibrations. As the lights come up and the Regal’s staff begin wiping the sweat from the floor, you can feel the exhaustion in the air, people are struggling to stand, having quite literally danced out every last ounce of energy they had.