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Those immense grooves were still intact thanks to a 13-strong band of Motown and P-Funk musicians. But the old boy limited the show to an hour - although had he informed us that's how long it would last when he stumbled on stage, wild-haired and blinking, like a man who'd just been woken by his car alarm, it would have seemed optimistic.

Then he started singing and the 66-year-old funk pioneer's cracked vocal was almost as dodgy as his multi-coloured wig.

As the music took hold, though, Clinton settled into the gig with a stonking Flash Light and a whispered cover of Curtis Mayfield's Gypsy Woman. He stood aside while vocalist Belita Woods performed a playfully romantic jazz tune. But the primal rhythms soon pulled him back in and Give Up the Funk turned the venue into a dancefloor.

When a fan proffered a pint, Clinton downed it like a man who clearly still knows how to enjoy himself. A shame, then, that he denied us his ultimate party tune, One Nation Under a Groove.

George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic
Indigo2, SE10