If you were worried that the weirder end of Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino and The Car might infect an Arctic Monkeys set list, fear not. The band’s 80-minute show at Bellahouston Park was more akin to a greatest-hits celebration than a trek through their latest (incredibly divisive) record, and it shows just how many styles Alex Turner and co have managed to perfect across three decades.

The noisy squall of ‘Brianstorm’, the militaristic freakout of ‘Crying Lightning’, the hard-rock pastiche of ‘Arabella’, the psychedelic mosh pit-maker of ‘Pretty Visitors’: all that is intact and untouched by the string arrangements or slower pacing of the band’s latest work. When songs from The Car finally do appear halfway through, it’s the obvious stadium fillers of ‘Body Paint’ and ‘Sculptures Of Anything Goes’ that set this crowd alight, while the quieter and more textured ‘Perfect Sense’ is largely shrugged off.

It points to the problem of an act as large as this shifting their tones so massively from album to album; eventually, as has happened with The Car, songs start to bristle rather than complement each other. Still, that barely matters when you’ve got a back catalogue as strong as this, and a frontman as strange and magnetic as Turner. With a shock of hair that makes him look like Scott Walker circa 1968 and a penchant for shouting non-sequiturs during songs (‘release the birds!’ he demands during the guitar solo of ‘Crying Lightning’), he manages to be one of the world's most dynamic rock stars while remaining deeply suspicious of his own charisma.

The videos circulating online of Turner deliberately slowing down or speeding up his vocals to throw off people trying to singalong at shows might make him seem overly obtuse when viewed on TikTok and Insta, but it adds another layer of charm to his eccentric persona; he’s a man both within the rock bubble and completely aware of its inherent ridiculousness.

No matter the ironic distance of Turner or the past two records’ experimentation, the tracks from Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not and Favourite Worst Nightmare are still clearly the most beloved: the singalongs of ‘Mardy Bum’ and ‘505’ are highlights of any Monkeys set. The constant joke about Alex Turner that he’s been trying to get away from his fans for the past decade might be true on the albums, but this is a set that gives them exactly what they want.

Reviewed at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow.