There's something comic - if not absurd - about a one-man band and Canadian MC/rapper/poet/folk singer Buck 65, aka Richard Terfry, understands this perfectly.
Replacing the traditional big bass drum, accordion and kazoo with a laptop, mic and a turntable, he has been entertaining crowds with his dirty, intelligent hip-hop for years and his act was humorous, ironic and loose.
It is a sign of his artistic range that Buck could successfully segue his elegiac rap for his widowed father, Roses And Bluejays, into The Fine Young Cannibals' Johnny Come Home, complete with a camp mime.
His opening track, Indestructible Sam, a banjo-driven number about an unkillable gravedigger, was balanced by his last, Stella, the powerful story of a girl haunted by incest.
Unique and uncompromising, Buck 65 left you feeling he has plenty more to say - and he'll be back to say it.
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