The Australian electronic dance music legends played the biggest stage of the in London to a sold-out crowd, highlighting their incredible staying power and hold over dance music fans everywhere. They effortlessly transitioned between tracks early in the set, with all the whimsy of a DJ starting their career and just seeing a crowd dance to their music for the first time. Yet with the effortlessness of a group who have cemented their status as one of the most pioneering dance groups of recent years, and perhaps, the best plunderphonicists of all time.

A free, easy performance, with the fun the group was having reciprocated among a crowd of dancers from all generations. Some had probably first tuned in to their very early records, such as the commercial hit ‘Since I Left You’, and some younger fans had probably discovered the group from the acclaimed ‘Wildflower’, or even the latest record ‘No Bad Memories’, moving in unison. Flowing nicely through the set, The Avalanches kept the audience guessing, switching between fan favourite originals like ‘Frontier Psychiatrist’, well-known crowd-pleaser covers like ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’ and mash-ups of both like ‘Electricity’, which they skillfully mixed with ‘Loser’.

It was the end of the set, though, where the group really got the crowd moving, with ‘Because I’m Me’ (perhaps their best ever track), followed closely by the long-time hit ‘Since I Left You’, turning the audience into a kind of liquid as they jumped and moved. They teased the end of the set before a fantastic encore, topped off by the brilliant ‘Can’t Get Over Losing You’ before leaving the stage (for real this time) jubilantly and to tremendous applause. The mood in the building provided a perfect end to the week for all there to see it; one would imagine everybody lucky enough to have made it into the Roundhouse that night went home smiling, slightly giddy and perhaps slightly drunk…