On an absolutely crisp Brisbane night (5 June), The Tivoli provides the perfect cure to a bad case of the shivers – and a severe lack of live music in my life.

Brisbane's very own Ball Park Music are wrapping up their The Rock 'N' Roll Adventure Continues' tour in the place where their adventure began.

Despite Ball Park Music easily being able to perform in a venue double the size of The Tivoli, two sold-out shows in one of Brisbane's cosiest venues is incredibly fitting and representative of the band themselves.

With several minutes until their main set commences, (hyperlocal) punters are sardining themselves as close as possible to the barricade. The Tivoli creates its own humid – yet oddly comforting – ecosystem within its enclosed walls.

Without a doubt, everyone in the venue is either a friend or a relative of-a-friend-of-a-friend of Ball Park Music; the vibes are high as we wait for our super-close friends to enter the stage.

As they open with 'She Only Loves Me When I'm There', the crowd halts their conversations and resorts to dancing. Jennifer Boyce's bass absolutely melts into my chest as the crowd out-sings Sam Cromack's "oohs" in the chorus.

It was easy to tell this is a Brisbane crowd. After a sick unspoken introduction filled with thick basslines and crunchy guitar riffs, Cromack delves into the context of the tour.

Ball Park Music had the privilege of being managed by one of Australia's greatest audio engineers and entertainment managers – the late Greg Weaver. Cromack described Weaver as a comfortably straightforward and seasoned manager who shaped the band into their current state.

While commemorating Weaver in the commencement of 'Stars In My Eyes', Cromack claims: "If you were hungover and couldn't go on, he would be the one to say 'the rock 'n' roll adventure continues'."

The spirits still remained as high as ever, and Brisbane found itself as the chosen city for Cromack's usually infrequent monologues. After a few more songs, Cromack takes the opportunity to point out the "free real estate" to the left of him: Dean Hanson (guitar) is unusually seated above Cromack on a platform in a chair.

The crowd comes to learn that Hanson broke his collarbone in three pieces during the (alleged) Brisbane Band Cricket Association after failing to catch the ball. Fortunately for Dean, his resilience and pure skill with his Stratocaster means he doesn't need to have a fall-back career with cricket.

Ironically, Cromack dedicates 'Nothing Ever Goes My Way' to the man in the chair. The next half an hour of the set features throwbacks to Ball Park's first two albums; The Tivoli is engulfed in whimsical buzzing riffs from 2012's 'Museum' and beyond, with a contemporary rendition featuring Cromack's humour.

The crowd never fails to miss a lyric – especially with tunes deriving from experiences in our own backyard of Brisbane. Towards the very end of the set, the band debuts their unreleased single 'The New Me Starts Tomorrow'.

Its instrumentation recalls riffs from their 'Happiness And Surrounding Suburbs' era with Cromack's witty lyricism from their later albums. The song features a very top-heavy guitar riff, with heavy cymbals from Daniel Hanson, syncopated synth rhythms from Paul Furness and an iconic call and response between Boyce and Cromack.

It's truly an exciting piece that I'm keen to hear its studio recording. At the end of the set, Cromack delivers his final monologue to his Brisbane friends as we anticipate 'Please Don't Move To Melbourne'.

With a crowd full of locals, the concept of the song hits hard. Brisbane and Melbourne have a give and take relationship, with Brisbane exhibiting legendary local music at the unfair transaction of stealing Brisbane's alt-community.

After admitting their Melbourne fanbase is always smug when they perform the song, Cromack states: "Never forget this is our song, it's a Brisbane song." Ball Park Music perfectly concludes the night with their Brisbane bias, performing to a sea of deserving friends.

The night was far from a binary interaction – it was a hangout of a thousand-something Brisbane punters catching up with Ball Park over shouted lyrics, synthesised riffs, and Brisbane banter.