A MINOR inconvenience like a loss of power did not put former Squeeze frontman, Glenn Tilbrook, off his stride as he rallied back-up group, The Fluffers, to launch into an acoustic version of Hourglass.

The unplanned, unplugged segment showed Tilbrook could keep an audience entertained, even if he was busking down your local high street, which he underlined as he played impromptu versions of Goodbye Girl and Black Coffee in Bed in the bar at the interval.

That meant the music did not stop, even as concertgoers were ordering and sipping their drinks, while still joining in on the chorus of the songs before following the pied guitarist, conga-like, back down into the main concert hall.

Many of the old Squeeze favourites were in there, starting with a rousing rendition of Annie Get Your Gun and going on to include Pulling Mussels (From a Shell), Slap and Tickle, Take Me, I'm Yours and possibly the former group's defining song, Up the Junction.

However many times you hear some of those favourites you cannot help being reminded just how inventive they were lyrically. Thankfully, Tilbrook always manages to convey his enjoyment playing them.

A natural extrovert, he and The Fluffers delivered an anarchic encore, with some freestyle musicianship that somehow managed to blend the theme song from Minder - I Could Be So Good For You - with Loving You and Funkytown, with it still making some perverse, wonderful sense.

Review by PETER McMILLAN