Whilst I may not be an authority of all things clubbing, the few times I have visited these underground establishments I’ve followed the general flow of: queuing, buying a drink, dancing, accompanying smoker friends outside, returning to the a) bar or b) dance-floor, before repeating the cycle over and over again. However, National Rail Disco, the Cambridge scenesters’ midweek institution (spotted last Michelmas: Simon Amstell – he didn’t queue) doesn’t seem to follow this pattern. Everyone stays outside. I say everyone, and I really mean about two-thirds of Kambar’s Wednesday population, but this still strikes me as bizarre considering that having paid their £4 entry fee these loiterers then appear to spend the majority of the evening sitting on Jamie Oliver’s windowsills.

Granted this was the first NRD of term and people had lots of catching-up to do. But inside some of the better music you’ll hear in terms of Cambridge nightlife was agogo and most people seemed to be missing out. Big moments included Leyendecker’s garage reworking of Cheryl Cole’s ‘Fight for this Love’ and Breach’s dubsteppy-esque ‘Fatherless’. From the pangs of familial trauma to ‘future garage’ soul, George Fitzgerald, the headliner of the evening, fed us a textually well-crafted set of juicy house-warmed melody. Though it began perhaps too down-tempo for a dance-til-you-drop evening, by the end this didn’t matter at all. Those there to appreciate Fitzgerald’s music did a bit of dancing and acknowledging of his finesse with the decks from Kambar’s tudor-beamed dance-floor whilst the majority remained outside. In the cold.

National Rail Disco’s founders, Jesuans Neil Amin-Smith and Grace Chatto, have created what is arguably, as their Facebook group says, "Cambridge’s best dance party", serving up forward-thinking dance music for those not content with ABBA medleys and Cotton-Eye-Joe on a loop. Judging by the sheer numbers who tried to push past the bouncer to get stamped on Wednesday, there is indeed a demand in Cambridge for a night serving up decent music for non-paralytically drunk smurfs.