LEGIONS of Quo fans turned out in the cold to pack out the Apollo as the Mighty Quo showed that, despite their age, they are still a force to be reckoned with.

Whilst their album sales of late haven’t been anything like those of the heady days of the seventies, on the live stage, the band is pretty much unbeatable.

They come on stage and launch into Caroline, and from then on it’s hit after hit.

It’s a full twenty minutes before Francis Rossi says hello, and by then he has the crowd pretty much in his hand.

OK, we’ve seen it all before – relentless twelve-bar boogie, but that’s exactly what we want.

And Quo deliver – in spades.

One hour and forty minutes with hardly a pause for breath, and we get songs from every area of Quo’s history – except from the sixties.

Early songs like Mean Girl and Paper Plane rest comfortably alongside eighties hits like Rolling Home and the massive hits such as Down Down and Whatever You Want.

We were also treated to a couple of the famous Quo medleys.

Rossi and Rick Parfitt were in fine form – although Rick was having trouble with his voice, as were the rest of the band, namely Rhino Edwards, Andrew Bown and Matt Letley, whose drum solo was astounding.

In The Army Now received rapturous applause, as did Rocking All Over The World.

The legendary Quo army would have stayed all night, and with the looks on their faces, the band were really enjoying it as well, but all too soon it came to an end.

They really are an institution, and a musical icon.

Long may they continue to give us Whatever We Want.