Time was when Mike Scott grasped the nettle and came through the undergrowth gloriously triumphant. His gig was The Big Music, a truly wondrous mixture of guitar-driven rock music and hugely romantic, idealistic and almost profound lyrical concepts of spirit and mind. Scott's difficulty was in maintaining such an epic sense of musical adventure, and inevitably he floundered.

Following a period of reflection in his native Scotland - and a couple of dodgy records - Scott recently returned to the fray with Still Burning, an album that harks back to his glory days with varying degrees of success. He performed several songs from this, as well as a number of Waterboys' favourites, in a gig which never really took off in the way it could have.

With guitars to the fore, the band (which included Ian McNabb, a musical cohort of Scott's with similar ideas as to the nature of musical epiphany) collectively cut a fine figure, but were ultimately let down by a number of factors: occasionally weak songs, guitar solo overkill, and an overbearing sense of achievement.