Being welcomed into the Hat Trick tent by a pair sporting velour tracksuits, you know you are going to be in good hands. With near constant hip flexing and shoulder shimmying, the hosts Amy Darling and Andrew Silverwood run you through the few important rules to enjoying this ‘bingo based theatrical experience’ (which is definitely not gambling or boring).

While ticking off numbers is the key mechanism moving things forward, it definitely becomes secondary to the banter and sing-alongs from the hosts. The anticipation for each number to be read from the tabletop bingo machine is more for the flair of its announcement than whether it sits on your card.

As I am writing this I am still haunted by that S Club 7 party anthem, but there are plenty more tunes that are rung from the telephone jukebox for all decades to enjoy. Don’t risk being a fanny by not joining in!

Upon each cry of “Britingo!” the stakes are raised; from the first draw resulting in a hilarious ball holding competition between the contenders as they stuffed their apparel with as many plastic playpen spheres as they could hold, to the traditional dispute resolution technique of rock-paper-scissors.

Everyone gets to grope a unicorn before a small scale life drawing competition is held as an interval to precede the final round. The tabletop is abandoned as Britingo! hits double speed with one host chaotically tossing the playpen balls from a small clam shell while the other did their best to catch and call.

While they were entertaining only a half capacity tent in The Pleasure Garden, the energy from our sassy hosts never wavered, the crowd clearly delighting in their gifts of mushy peas and Irn-Bru, and trips into musical nostalgia.