Lazarus Soul are one nervous singer, one shy guitarist and, on some songs, a programmed-synthful of electronics.

A crowd of ignorant bozos talked through the set. It was their loss, though: this was really good, with fine songs not a million miles from John Cale's solo work.

Dave Couse's former band, A House, split not because of artistic differences, crippling drug addictions, supermodel divorces or any other rock 'n' roll clichΘs. They separated because they could no longer afford to continue. This was a travesty, considering the amount of talent-free pop millionaires out there.

So now it's just him and a keyboard player.

Three songs in, they played No More Apologies, from the last A House album. Mic-stand troubles left him having to sing it in three parts. So the audience sang it while he wrestled with the mic. No apology necessary.

You're Too Young is 10 years old and still brilliant, if a tad ironic, considering that most of the audience would have seen 30 only on their speedometers.

Fergal Bunbury, the former A House guitarist, joined them for Raining, a new song, which segued seamlessly into The Beatles' Here Comes The Sun.

He also shone on other new songs, Peaceful, Self Obsessed and Satisfaction. The latter was written, so Couse said, so he could pretend to have written a famous song.

Couse still uses his trusty notebook for the dead genius list lyrics of Endless Art. The chorus goes "All dead, but still alive". It could have been a metaphor for the night.

A House might be dead, but their music and his solo career are very much alive. Great songwriter, great performer. This surely was endless art.