At least, that's the premise of this hugely entertaining musical retrospective, which opens with thunder, lightning and a familiar newscaster's voice telling us that that a light plane carrying some well-known musicians has gone missing in a storm.

Wearing his trademark sunglasses, but seated and also sporting a beret, Rick Brewster launches into the familiar riff of After The Rain  and John steps to the mic to provide a more-than-passable stand-in for original Angels frontman Doc Neeson.

In fact, the ferocity with which they delivered such classics as Devil's Gate, Take a Long Line, No Secrets, Face the Day  and Marseilles could have had you believe you were listening to the original lineup in its heyday.

In between, there were the stories behind the songs, tales of life on the road, and the unlikely musical history which led to The Angels.

The classically trained brothers came from a family history of orchestral musicians, composers and conductors.

They then formed the Moonshine Jug and String Band, which reformed for this occassion with original banjo and kazoo player Peter Tregloan and featured the unlikely sight of the usually static Rick dancing up a storm while strumming on a washboard.

The brothers' more recent blues-folk compositions - Do It Again, Blue Blood and No Place Like Home - also went down a treat with the audience which, despite its advancing years, happily yelled the obscene refain to an encore of Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?