A packed Sub Rooms enjoyed a sparkling evening as the UK’s most popular country music band, The Shires, played a classy acoustic set.

The Shires have topped the UK Country charts and it showed in this polished set, as Ben Earle and Crissie Rhodes took the audience through their repertoire. They started off with ‘World Without You’ and ‘All Over Again’, and then played songs from all of their four studio albums. It was a gig that delighted the fans, who were singing along and up on their feet for much of the night.

Jonathan Duckworth