IS there a more prolific songwriter than Euros Childs, the Carmarthen keyboards player and singer, who is riding a creative wave at 37?

The Welshman has released no fewer than seven albums in the past six years, two of them this year on his National Elf label, the latest being Summer Special.

The sunshine had of course long gone by the time Childs’ played, his set held back to accommodate an extra support slot by Adam Stearns. Neverthless, Childs was wearing a corn-yellow T-shirt to match the sunny rays that radiate from his psych pop music, as they did when he fronted Gorky’s Zygotic Mynki.

Stearns, it turned out, was part of Childs’ band, joining guitarist Marco Rea and drummer Stuart Kidd from another of the support acts, Glasgow’s The Wellgreen.

Childs very much took the lead – the T-shirt was heavy with sweat by the finale – whereas Stearns and Rea stayed as cool as they looked alongside the hyper frontman.

Childs had played to an audience half the size on his previous visit to the Basement three years ago, and this time his performance responded to the constantly enthusiastic reaction that met new – Summer Days – and old – Gorky’s Barafundle Bumbler – alike.

Best of all was First Time I Saw You, which began with Childs sticking down three keys with tape for a psychedelic drone, joined at intervals by each musician to complete a hypnotic sound that could only work live.