Andy Nice then came on stage to play beside Natasha and supplied an unusual and very effective pizzicato work on Hidden Treasure, a track from the current album.

Also off the album came Other Things, one of Natasha’s few collaborative works, written with Alfredo Ricioppo, also credited with the sleeve design. The lyric, like most of her work, is uplifting and self affirming, but the delivery here put me in mind of Nick Cave. Only three songs into the set and the comparisons being made were of the highest order.

Andy stepped off stage for the next track, the beautiful Naked Flame, with its haunting line that “silence will speak for truth”.

Her accompanist, though, was required again for the intricate arrangements of the next song, crossed by not one, but two winding instrumental bridges. Cure My Sentiment was followed by Fate No Fall, that Natasha told us is a story recounted to her by the victim of a hit and run accident. The lyric vividly captures the out of body moments of a near death experience.

Little Voice, being my favourite song from her album, was the highlight too of the gig for me. I have said many times of Natasha Lea Jones that her work takes me back to the halcyon days of The Incredible String Band (in the Liquorice era) and this song would have taken pride of place on any of their best albums.

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