The venue was played host to this year's ever-popular NME Awards Tour featuring fledgling rap queen Azealia Banks, Tribes, sultry four-piece Metronomy and Northern Ireland's Two Door Cinema Club.
The shows provide a steady platform for up-and-coming acts to propel themselves to the higher echelons of musical prestige, a la Florence and the Machine, The Drums and Kaiser Chiefs.
Azealia Banks will be huge based on her confident, yet fairly short, set. Flanked only by a DJ, the opening act let her ferocious tongue do the talking over fluid beats. Crowd favourite 212 was a clear highlight and the seemless mixing of Prodigy's classic Firestarter sent the sold-out audience into an early frenzy.
Next up, though, were Tribes. A typically mediocre UK act backed by NME thanks to their generic riffs and expensive haircuts. A hideous mix of Feeder, Suede and OK Go, washed down with a chaser of Pixies.
The meticulous electro-funk of Metronomy was typically efficient as they stormed through The Bay, The Look and Everything Goes My Way, while Two Door Cinema Club's charming and infectious indie pop was energetic and captivating.
So here's to next year. We can't wait to see which new acts NME will be championing next time round, and we're sure the bow-legged chino fashionistas can't either.
