The Lysergic Suite, Flat 0/1, Glasgow

Somewhere between humorously kitsch and downright grotty, Flat 0/1 is a city centre venue styled after a student flat-share. This evening it feels like an oversubscribed, sweaty party gate-crashed by the ghosts of the late ‘60s psychedelic era, fuelled by copious amounts of cheap lager in plastic cups.

Leicester outfit The Lysergic Suite - whose two core members Gren and Adem are augmented by a full line up who share their experimental approach - display just the right amount of road-weariness at the mid-point of their mini-tour of Scotland.

While a couple of the other bands on the bill had attempted to channel spirit of The Doors and failed to hit the mark, it fell to The Lysergic Suite to seize the moment and provide the much-craved experience that can lift a gig like this out of the ordinary.

Coming on loud like a more chaotic Pink Floyd meets a milder My Bloody Valentine, they sample sitars and beat poetry into the mix of guitars and electronics. The band themselves are obscured by darkness, having drenched the venue in dry ice. The stage is lit dramatically from behind which only adds to the spacey atmosphere.

Summoning shades of Tangerine Dream, ‘Storm In Heaven’-era Verve and a spaced out Mansun, they display a Krautrock-like determination to drive a rhythm. It is a sound that is pure noise at times, both expansive and immersive, but remaining for the most part on the right side of self indulgence.

The Lysergic Suite have worked with members of both Death In Vegas and Kasabian (on EP ‘Ghosts On Crusade’), but it’s the former’s Tim Holmes production work that appears to have had the most influence on their overall sound.

Towards the end of the set fire engines arrive in the street outside, called to an alarm in the bar next door. Inside Flat 0/1 we’re oblivious, too absorbed in a musical conflagration to be distracted.