Yeah.

Well, mainly yeah.

Bill comes out and shambles his charming way through his opening bit, and then continues on. Parts of the show were stunning, and some parts were good, but I came away feeling mysteriously unsatisfied. Bill has talent in many different areas: he's a very good and very surreal comedian, he has a very relaxed manner on stage, and he's a great musician. He's one of a minuscule number of comedians who can score huge laughs by showing off at the piano.

But I found that all these different talents kept going in different directions: they didn't add up to anything in particular by the end. I just found that frustrating.

Still, there was a great deal to like in his show, and a great deal to like about him. He describes himself as a "relaxed empiricist," which immediately differentiates him from every other comedian out there. To his great credit, he picked obscure targets. At one point he talked about Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, which I greatly appreciated. Other highlights were the takeoff of Billy Bragg, and the freeform jazz version of the fox hunt's bugle call.

He's very definitely worth seeing: don't be put off by my mysteriously unsatisfied feeling - which, I realise, I can't even explain properly.