With a venue full of rapt Numanoids eager to see their idol revisit his creative peak, the live return of Gary Numan, focusing on his early LPs Replicas, The Pleasure Principle and Telekon, could really do no wrong.

If he was an artist, Numan would be the cyberpunk painting a dystopian canvas, although Tara Busch and Maf Lewis, A.K.A support act I Speak Machine, offered a grindhouse movie of a starter course.

Industrial noise and horror films have long been bedfellows, though Busch and Lewis’ gory short films showed rare eloquence.

Ostensibly simpler, though still booming, the 80s synth favourite turned trenchcoat-metaller Numan was mesmerising. Big-hitters exploded from quirkier album tracks as Me! I Disconnect From You and a rocky You Are In My Vision jolted the crowd into action.

Observer provided a glam stomp whilst Down In The Park exuded a deliciously creepy moodiness, flitting between B-movie sci-fi cheese and William Gibson profundity.

A simply fantastic, overwhelmingly vast take on Telekon’s This Wreckage was the night’s big highlight, no mean feat when the likes of Cars and Are Friends Electric provided such a brilliant punch at the show’s climax.

It seems Numan’s alien world, in all its cold bleakness, still conjures a huge sense of warm nostalgia - and rightly so.