Gee Baby I Love You get the crowd on their feet

Gee Baby I Love You have been plying the best live Motown, soul and funk covers since the mid-1980s and are a guaranteed good time. Upstairs at the Hen & Chicken, the audience ranged from energetic boomers to younger kids wanting to know what the fuss was about.

How the eight-strong line-up including frontman John Orme, singer Cherie Musialik and a three-piece brass section crammed on to a tiny performance space I have no idea, but the mass of humanity on stage matched the enthusiasm of the crowd and the place was hopping from the word go.

Orme drove the funky rhythms with classics such as Agent Double O Soul, Ain’t no Stoppin’ Us Now, Tequila and Hawaii Five-0. With their repertoire funkier than ever, the evening was all about dancing, with crowd pleaser I Love You Baby (In which Andy Williams was cheekily adapted by changing You to Gee) and a nod to the 21st century with Uptown Funk.

As well as being musically tight, their stagecraft is impeccable, as they throw hilarious shapes and duckwalks, and even a shower of glitter during a dramatic pause. Okay so the tunes may go back a few years but Gee Baby are living proof that soul never grows old.