There are bands that, frankly, I just never expected to see live, and Public Enemy are pretty much mythical in my mind. Seeing Chuck D and Flavor Flav come onstage at Brixton Academy wasn’t just magical in the sense that it was an amazing thing to see, it felt magical insofar as it was totally unbelievable that I was seeing what I was seeing at all.

They were there as part of the ATP season, performing the entirety of It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, which they could have told us slightly fewer times without harming the atmosphere if I’m honest, but really there was little to complain about at such a mindblowing performance.

From Bring The Noise through to the greatest hits encore, the night was spectacular, with the band ploughing through some of the the most important formative songs of hip-hop. Without getting even more gushing, I don’t think I can really descibe what the gig felt like, but they’ve still got whatever they had, and they’re not afraid to use it. Their talent and genius puts pretty much every hip-hop act around today to shame.