PUBLIC Service Broadcasting's headline set stole the show from a roaring first night at Ramsbottom Festival, using their unique array of electronic and traditional punk rock sounds to set a bar for Saturday's acts tough to reach.

Less a gig and more a science fiction experience, the band, dressed in shirts and ties or dicky-bows, gave a performance complete with screens flashing black and white images from British and political culture of the past, and an almost spaceship-like construct taking centre stage.

Their music is Frankenstein's monster, incorporating instruments that simply do not compute, the stage littered in laptops, synths and electronics, but the band still sport the customary guitar, bass and drums set-up we have all come to expect from a festival performance...Oh, and a banjo.

Everyone in the crowd is smiling true or dancing with freedom, eliminating all possibilities of this unique fusion of punk and electronics being a gimmick, in spite of their never talking to the crowd, instead using automated voice samples of 'Thank you, very much' and 'Ramsbottom Festival!!' between numbers. The humour of this creates a unique intimacy between the band and crowd, sharing laughs without the need to talk.

The third track, a left-turn from the earlier dance songs, is an aggressive electro-punk number, glittered with grunge and thumping bass, founded on paranoid riffs and poppy power backbeats we will still hear upon waking tomorrow morning.

The sixth song sees the band joined by a trombonist, trumpeter and saxophonist, PSB's bassist/guitarist and electro-percussionist producing a flugelhorn to together create a melancholic yet celebratory sound, as the automated voice-over rings out: 'It is wonderful because it stands on what has been achieved'.

The experience is ultimately like using a calculator as a mobile phone because it looks a bit like it, and being surprised to discover that it works just as well as, if not better. They will not be forgotten with ease.