The good thing about never being in fashion is you can never fall out of fashion either.

It's what I tell my kids whenever I buy myself a new pair of trainers from Tesco, and the same thought pops into my head while watching The Levellers at Dreamland in Margate last night.

Even at the height of their commercial success, the Brighton-based band never fitted into any music scene, instead building a loyal following unconcerned about trends.

As a result, more than 30 years after forming, the band can still pack out a decent-sized venue on a freezing Wednesday night on the Kent coast in December.

The Levellers took to the stage just hours after Boris announced the roll-out of further Covid restrictions - two days later and masks would have been mandatory.

As it was, you could still feel a sense of trepidation among some of the crowd, with one masked-up couple watching the entire gig from outside the entrance.

The majority, though, were happy to throw themselves fully into it from the outset.

The Dreamland gig was part of a 30-year anniversary tour for The Levellers classic Levelling the Land album.

Playing the songs from an album back to back brings its own challenge, and in The Levellers' case it means having to start with your biggest hit, One Way.

But they have been in the game so long that the band know how to keep a gig flowing, and once they had wrapped up Levelling The Land they moved on to a selection of greatest hits and tracks from their last studio album Peace, rounding off with their traditional cover of The Devil Went Down to Georgia.

In the age of Spotify, it's hard to imagine another band breaking through in quite the way The Levellers did - from Brighton squat parties to headlining Glastonbury whilst steadfastly refusing to play the music industry's game.

Given the demographic last night - with a healthy smattering of teens and 20-somethings among the crowd - it's not unfeasible to imagine they might still be at it in another 30 years.