"Interestingly, Liela Moss of London garage-rockers the Duke Spirit uses the same word: she so savoured the “empowering” feeling of playing a gig inside a boxing ring a few months ago that what was intended as a quirky one-off is going to be the focal point of their next tour. The band have hired a ring, which will be set up in the middle of venues that have the space for it. Fans can surround it, as if at a boxing match, and see the band from a different perspective. The idea ties in with the title of their next album – Bruiser – but Moss also sees it as “the ultimate feminist gesture of taking on a man’s world”. She’s hoping, perhaps a bit ambitiously, that the ring will make punters “reconsider our animalistic inclinations, that brutal part of our psyche”. Does she really expect that to happen? “Hopefully,” she says without hesitation. “I want to feel like fans are sucked up in the centre of a maelstrom, like we’ve all gathered together with some kind of pride and power."