As Woomble remarked early on, this was very much a stripped back and low budget gig, and none the worse for it. Just Roddy and Andrew Mitchell, the latter playing keyboards, acoustic guitar and assorted electronic gizmos, as well as contributing backing vocals. Woomble played a bit of guitar, but left the clever stuff to his bandmate and concentrated on what he does best - singing in his own unique phrasing style.
The set was a mix of old and new. Most of the latter from the new trio, Almost Nothing, that Woomble and Mitchell launched recently, largely upbeat and electronic. While the old came from Woomble's back catalogue of solo albums, more reflective material, but dpresented with unfamiliar instrumentation, so that there was a sense of freshness to the entire gig. Woomble was, as ever, a deceptively shapr and humourous presenter of songs, and his voical style is as smooth and distinctoive as ever. If there was alsightly shambolic, make do, element to the gig, this only added to the charm, and the hour passed quickly. Storngly entertaining.
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