With one bound, Friendly Fires' frontman Ed Macfarlane was free of the stage - swinging his hips down among the great unwashed in the stalls of Dublin's Olympia.

And this was Lovesick, the opener to an unrelenting performance; transforming the old playhouse into a sweatbox with the alternative-dance grooves of their eponymous debut record and the more poppy Pala. Killed by Friendly Fires? We're still missing in action.