"You look like you're asleep!" roars Mike Skinner, pointing at an unfortunate spectator in the Corn Exchange balcony. "It's not Radiohead!"

The crowd laughs, but I cringe. Perhaps this is why I've never been a massive fan of the Streets. The geezer anthem ‘Dry Your Eyes' drove me to despair, as did widespread belief Skinner was the saviour of British music, and I vividly remember making a hasty exit when he appeared at Radio One's Big Weekend in 2004.

Five years later, Skinner parades the stage in a Metallica T-shirt while Kevin Mark Trail provides vocal accompaniment to the title track of last year's album Everything Is Borrowed. An engaging ‘Let's Push Things Forward' followed, climaxing in a mash up of the Prodigy's ‘Out Of Space'. It made for a rave-tastic opening, but any charm was quickly forfeited, with his tiresome attempts to rally the crowd with cries of "CAN YOU SEE ME? CAN YOU HEAR ME?" Like the Ra diohead joke, his patronisingly slow voice, pronouncing every-single-syllable, (in the same tone you use giving tourists directions to the bus station) very quickly wore thin.

Luckily, crowd pleasers like ‘Could Well Be In', ‘Weak Become Heroes' and ‘Has It Come To This' dominated the set, with the latter having a near nostalgic effect. Can you believe it's nearly a decade since the release of Original Pirate Material? The only problem was the sound levels. A four piece band drowned out Skinner's storytelling, with his poetic references to KFC, JD Sports and the Artful Dodger struggling to compete over the cacophony of bass, drums and synth. ‘Never Went To Church' received one of the biggest reactions of the night, with Mark Trail tagging a solo rendition of Glasvegas's ‘Daddy's Gone' onto the end.

‘Blinded By The Lights' saw some eerie eyes projected on stage, before Skinner rather ingeniously invited the crowd to crouch down on the floor. Reaching a point where the infectiousness had won over even the toughest of reviewers, it was impossible to refuse in joining the mass s quat. His attempt to strip Cambridge of its dignity even further, urging us to "Take your shirt off" during a thrilling encore of ‘Fit But You Know It' was less enthusiastically received though. We're clearly more prudish than he reckoned.