NOTTINGHAM band Amber Run have just scored their first UK Top 40 hit with their debut album 5am, and so understandably, the good feeling flowed freely at Fibbers for their first performance in York.

A debut Top 40 album is a fantastic achievement and Nottingham is fast becoming the UK’s Silicon Valley of music, with Jake Bugg, London Grammar and Indiana all achieving chart success after crafting their sound in the city.

Composed of Will Jones, Tom Sperring, Felix Archer, Henry Wyeth and lead vocalist Joe Keogh (who slightly resembles Jack Black), Amber Run reeled through a whole album of finely curated and refined pop rock, and with so many influences discernibly driving their commercially viable sound, one might think that they had attended a school of rock themselves.

There were hints of Bastille, Fall Out Boy, The 1975, and in the harmonic tour-de-force I Found, even Imogen Heap.

This is not an admonishment, however, as it is this versatility and variability that allowed the band to satisfy the sonic desires of an audience full of contrast. Moshers, rockers, fan girls and crooners all packed into this increasingly endearing venue, co-existing under blanket adulation of what is a fine outfit.

Support acts included Hertfordshire singer-songwriter Rhodes, whose vocally entrancing set underlined him as one to watch (and definitely listen to), and Meadowlark, the Bristol trio led by Kate McGill, whose catchy blend of pop, comparable in style to Lucy Rose, was a joy to behold.

- Kevin Holmes-Attivor