The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are like no other band around. Their records are a wonderful mix of rock, 1970s glam and fragile love songs. And live they are out of this world.

Front woman Karen O is born to perform. For the show she has covered her forehead in green luminous glittering paint and donned a tight T-shirt dress covered in writing. I'm sure it contains a meaningful message but she dances and bounces around the stage so much you can't make it out.

Under a huge floating blue eye the band start the night with Runway. Karen is beaming .The band has been on tour all year yet but it seems she still can't believe the reaction their wonderful sounds bring.

The New Yorkers play for an hour and a half, smashing their way through Pin, Gold Lion, Rich Soft Shock and the beautiful love song Maps and Turn Into. There's even a little audience participation as Karen jumps into the crowd and passes round the microphone.

She adds frequent additions to her outfit, sending the crowd wild when she puts on a leather jacket covered in studs which, if she went out on the streets of Leeds, would see her arrested for having an offensive weapon, before the band play Zero, their hit from the last album.

The sell-out gig and the reaction from the Leeds crowds is proof that there's enough of an appetite for live music in the city to warrant the building of an arena.

Gillian Haworth