Say She She arrive in Glasgow for the final night of their UK tour. Entering the stage, flags aloft, the trio of Nya Gazelle Brown, Sabrina Mileo Cunningham and Pita Malik receive a typically boisterous Glasgow welcome. It’s a Sunday evening, it’s cold out and people are ready to dance. This is a group that can make that happen. And Brown, who looks to be at full term in her pregnancy, leads the way with an effortless cool on many of the show’s dance breakdowns.

These three classically trained singers deliver a set of super tight harmonies; blending operatic techniques with disco soul. The influences of both Chic and Talking Heads are clear in the loose swagger of all three, including the cover of the latter’s ‘Slippery People’. Cunningham channels her inner David Byrne/Moira Rose hybrid in big black shades and sleeves with a beautifully post-punk good-time attitude. The all-male band behind them is also impeccable with the heavy bass providing propulsion for much of the proceedings. The melodies from both guitars and keys take the band and crowd into late-60s psychedelic territory. During a brief intermission, the band continues with an extended jam while their lead singers take a breather. And it’s all very, very cool.

Songs such as ‘Forget Me Not’ and ‘Astral Planes’ are now well known to many, showcasing the upper ranges of vocal power. But the album cuts also provide a fierce call to the cause of individuality (like on the funky ‘Questions’). This is not the place for being reserved. Or shirking from the cause of progress. It’s a live show so it’s easy to lose track of some of the deeper meanings in each song but on the politically charged ‘Norma’, Say She She are clear that they want their music to mean something (‘We will not go back…write a letter to the state!’) 

Of course, many will know Say She She from their single ‘C’est Si Bon’, which they performed last year on Jools Holland’s show and they deliver it again here with the crowd in full flow (and many questionable shapes being thrown on the floor). The night comes to a glittering end with a cover of The Rah Band’s ‘Message From the Stars’ with its jagged bass, pulsing synths and cosmic flourishes behind the otherworldly vocals of three supremely talented women who really are aiming for the extra-terrestrial.