Who knew London's pensions industry was so cool? Last night, over 300 actuaries, lawyers, fund managers, consultants, trustees and others packed out the 100 Club on Oxford Street, for their second annual "battle of the bands". And was that Steve Webb, the UK's pensions minister, getting down to Rage Against the Machine?

The event, put together by Stuart Breyer, director of communications and research at pensions advisers Redington, and Charlie Thomas, executive editor of trade magazine Pensions Management, has proved so wildly popular that this year it has had to be spread over two nights.