Just a couple of weeks ago, Liverpudlian singer-songwriter Jamie Webster was stood on stage in Manchester in front of 15,000 Richard Ashcroft fans. At the time, Webster joked to the crowd that he was expecting something of a hostile reaction given that he had strayed into “enemy territory.” Thankfully, nothing could have been further from reality, as was the case when Webster brought his own headline tour to a sold-out Academy in Leeds (another of “the enemy”). Packed in like sardines, there was not a single spot on the dancefloor or seat on the balcony to be had as the sound of a playlist of indie classics was regularly punctured by chants of “Fuck The Tories” from this raucous “up for it” crowd. By the time the folk singer sauntered out onto the stage to a sea of mobile phone lights and ...