THE HAPPY ACCIDENTS at Twyning Village Hall.

Chris Eldon Lee - BBC Radio 4 Arts Unit Producer

This was a highly auspicious debut for a multi-generational band, which very quickly wooed an even more multi-generational audience.

“The Happy Accidents” specialise in playing familiar contemporary music in quirky unfamiliar styles. This does wonders for both the tune and the lovingly revealed lyrics of popular material by the likes of Oasis, Keane, Queen, Green Day, The Foo Fighters and even The Velvet Underground.

It’s not only a refreshing revelation; it’s also a clever piece of social engineering.

You give the kids the songs they love in a way that doesn’t send shock waves down their wrinkly parents’ spines. At last you can have a bus pass and like The Stranglers.

The band’s highly eclectic and Quixotic set was leavened by some dazzling moments of virtuoso violin from Maurice Hipkiss and the youthful, liquid voice of Oonagh Hughes, who deserves to be up there with Maddy Prior and Annie Lennox.

Jon Benns’ ukulele song about the Tewkesbury floods had the air of one of  George Formby’s cheeky-chappie Blackpool ditties - sung at a dangerously high spring tide.

Caroline McQuillan-Benns held it all neatly together with some proper posh piano playing - and Jon’s son Jesse underlined the whole evening with a range of very subtle rhythms.

It was an archetypal, cross section village hall audience and ‘The Happy Accidents’ proved beyond doubt that - actually - you can please all the people all the time.

Happy? I was delirious. An Accident? I don’t think so.