Armed with a bunch of impossibly catchy anthems and a surfeit of self-belief, Embrace took the stage at the Temple Bar Music Centre last night and laid down the next milestone on the road to rock 'n' roll. While their debut album, The Good Will Out, nestles comfortably in pole position in the UK charts, the Huddersfield boys have come all the way across the Irish Sea to give a few hundred punters a taste of glories to come.

Blind, Last Gas and All You Good Good People showed that Embrace mean business and singer Danny McNamara worked the crowd for all he was worth. Embrace have three styles: the mid-tempo anthems like My Weakness Is None Of Your Business and Come Back To What You Know; the piano-drenched ballads like Higher Sights and That's All Changed Forever; and the all-out rockers like You've Got To Say Yes, I Want The World and One Big Family.

Danny, bespectacled and handsome, is Britpop's latest squeeze - cool, charismatic and collected; his brother, Richard, plays his Noel Gallagher role with boyish enthusiasm, stabbing out the guitar licks and getting the crowd to chant along to those Beatlesque codas. With Oasis gone stale and The Verve shot into the stratosphere, it may be time to embrace the future.