Roy Harper has lost his marbles. Apparently this happened quite a long time ago (for those in the know), sadly I am not one of these, I am here because I felt I should hear at first hand what an underrated yet highly influential musician actually sounds like. The rambling between songs is as much a part of the performance as the music itself. We are treated to stories of sex, aliens, music and bad jokes. A rant about religion is all the more startling, given that he is sitting in a church with an enormous Jesus behind him! Still, God didn't seem to mind so much, perhaps lending a hand with the reverb, which in St Georges is pretty substantial.

The support is from Matt Churchill , a young Scouse guitar genius. He plays acoustic music of deep complexity and much speedy scales. Like classical jazz blues with a LOT of chorus and reverb. Some of it is great, ethereal. As with everone else these days, he gets out a looper and proceeds to play a track that wouldn't be out of place on a boyzone record. This isn't a compliment.

Roy, on the other hand, sings wavering folk blues. He ventures into more progressive rock tunes occasionally and even though this is an all acoustic gig they manage to come across really well. He is joined on jazz wibbling by Matt Churchill who manages to contain himself enough to compliment the songs well.

Two big problems, are the fact that he insists on using tons of reverb in an already echoey hall and that Flying Saucers song is shit. I mean really bad. Still on the whole it is a very entertaining evening...