THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA

ONE DESIRE

ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL, LONDON

There are Friday nights, and then there are . This one begins with, whose authentically large choruses are hamstrung by a somewhat anaemic sound, but it’s the headliners people are here to see. With glow-in-the-dark ‘Never mind the Coronavirus, here’s The Night Flight Orchestra’ t-shirts lighting up the merch stall, are on a mission to entertain. They’re an effervescent reminder that rock is often at its best when it’s about joy, and dancing, and wrapping your arms around your friends and drunkenly bellowing along with a proper chorus at the top of your lungs. NFO may not have written an yet, but hell, that’s only one less than Survivor. And besides, they’ve got several in the locker. could’ve been co-written with Abba, has a chorus Jon Bon Jovi would kill for, and the disco dreamscape of is an exultant, glitter-dusted triumph. And as a conga train jubilantly snakes around the room and David Andersson’s champagne roadie refills the guitarist’s glass, you just know they’re going to at Bloodstock this summer.