"This tour is about the fifteenth anniversary of the Get Born album but we actually wrote all the songs five years before it was released," he told the crowd, most of whom looked like they could have been among the 3.5 million who bought it first time around.

"So I know what you're thinking: how is he still looking so good?"

Cester's songs have stayed as lean as he has. Played in its entirety on this night, Get Born sounded like an Australian classic, as filler-free as Back In Black.

The format did mean that the band's two biggest hits, Are You Gonna Be My Girl? with its booming Motown bassline and Rollover DJ, rallying cry of the early-noughties rock revival, arrived second and third.

But there was no sense of anti-climax as younger brother Chris Cester then came from behind the drums to channel Gram Parsons on Move On.

Cold Hard Bitch sounded as tight and urgent as ever with Nic Cester's scream in full flight , and the T-Rex lope of Lazy Gun defied that old rule about an album's second-last track usually being the weakest.

The energy dipped a little once Get Born was delivered, with a couple too many mid-paced ballads, but Seventeen and the Stones-y Walk (complete with "ya ya" chorus) got the room moving again. Closer Rip It Up from 2006's Shine On grew the mosh pit with an arrangement that was basically all riff.

Earlier, fellow rock revival contenders The Vines played the first show with their original line-up since a notorious gig at The Annandale Hotel in 2004, when frontman Craig Nicholls assaulted a photographer and told the crowd to "go baa", prompting bassist Patrick Matthews to quit.

Matthews looked happy to be back and Nicholls too seemed in a better place, leading his bandmates in some inventive harmonies on the first couple of tracks.

But Nicholls' vocals remain an acquired taste: edgy and charismatic, or unintelligible and out-of-tune, depending on whether you've acquired it or not.

The Vines lacked the match fitness of Jet, who reformed in 2016, and for now it was harder to see what the fuss had once been all about.

Jet and The Vines play a second show, at the Enmore Theatre, on May 31.