Not many comics could leap off a train and deliver an hour of brand new material with their notes still tangled up in a shopping bag.

But Robin Ince did just that for the first of a monthly residency at the Three And Ten, designed to develop a new show, before racing off to perform another set at Komedia's Krater Comedy Club.

Onstage Ince was endearingly shambolic, but with an underlying intelligence, casual references to Noam Chomsky and Carl Sagan reminiscent of cerebral comic Stewart Lee.

Among the highlights were discussions about evolution and why aliens will never visit the Earth - largely due to television's ever-declining standards.

He may have lacked Lee's experimental edge, being happy to draw on comic staples from his own life such as the birth of his son, but at the same time avoiding any sense of talking down to the audience, as is often the case with Lee.