Graham Coxon at the Concorde

Having blown out his secret gig at Audio last month in favour of seeing James's Severance flick up in London, I was glad to get a second chance to catch Graham Coxon on his current live jaunt, touring his Love Travels At Illegal Speeds album. I wasn't overly impressed when I saw him at the same venue two years ago, but this time around he was much better - leaner, tighter and with a more solid vocal performance. The set list too was stronger, mainly comprising his more poppy / punky tracks from his last two albums rather than the lo-fi noodlings of his earlier material. Considering most of his songs don't last more than three minutes this was a value-for-money ninety minute set, plus he returned for a five song encore. And support band Duals also impressed.