The Supernaturals

For The Supernaturals, A Tune A Day is less a title than a manifesto

For The Supernaturals, A Tune A Day is less a title than a manifesto. As they showed on Monday night, the facility with which they turn out the purest of pop melodies is their greatest asset, which with their infectious good humour made for a hugely enjoyable concert.

Their songs are built from the most traditional of materials. Each one is based on basic strummed chords, with less than profound progressions. Yet The Supernaturals have enough sonic imagination to enliven this basic fare - a glockenspiel here, a heavily treated guitar line there. Indeed, the Scottish six-piece are remarkably close to pop greats A House - the same search for the unusual, the same vocals grovelling for the melody, yet still sounding pure, the same lurches into catchy choruses.

For songs like the marvellous Trees and the idiosyncratic version of Wham!'s Freedom this works wonderfully. But the comparison shows them to be without an Exocet moment - a daring modulation or turn of phrase or heartbreaking touch that connects and makes a good song classic.

Still, they have impeccable stage craft, good humour and more than a few good songs. A career as the Robbie Williams house band is theirs for the taking, but The Supernaturals are better than that.