Nick Cave - Hammersmith Apollo

WATCHING the legendary Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, it's easy to see why so many reviewers resort to cliché.

Jet-black mullet and handlebar moustache, check. Howling feedback, guitar riffs like bullet shots and Old Testament-style lyrics, check. Doom-laden songs of lost love and death, check.

Thankfully, we can add a few more to those: packed concert, adoring audience and one of the most exciting rock 'n' roll acts performing anywhere, check, checkity, check.

With 14 studio albums and more than 200 songs under his belt, Nick Cave has an enviable catalogue to choose from.

The sell-out show show, the second of three sold-out London gigs, is heavy on songs from latest album, Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!, such as More News From Nowhere.

Judging by the reception to crazy frontman Cave, it's already joined his list of classics, ee Call Upon the Author rails furiously at random acts of the Almighty, More News from Nowhere rocks out, and title track Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! is stuffed silly with more of those aforementioned Biblical references.

Cave a cross between a wheedling snake oil salesman and an, okay, I said it, a theatrical Old Testament preacher, is a captivating, crazy frontman.

Returning after the break in his own band's tour T-shirt, Cave growls: "I wouldn't have to do this if you didn't steal songs illegally off the internet."

As if anyone would dare!