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But his second album, At Your Inconvenience, has been received with such eyebrow-raising, often misplaced vitriol, it's as if the game was already up.

It's not, but the Hackney 27-year-old with the naffest tattoos this side of Blink 182 must decide if he wants to be a sweary cartoon misogynist or a thoughtful, word-wielding street poet. Oh My God featured a toe-curlingly crude line concerning his intentions towards Pixie Lott.

Yet, moments later, after Green had told a screaming crowd "I want you to be quiet", came Astronaut, the moving tale of a rape victim who turns to heroin. I'm not sure he knows how to resolve a dilemma which renders him contradictory rather than diverse.

Despite a wretched sound quality which ensured any wordplay was wasted, Green emerged as a charismatic performer with more star quality than first impressions suggest. He and his well-drilled band located the dance jugular on the supercharged Just Be Good To Green and went somewhere deeper on the outstanding Avalon.

And with a set lasting under an hour including encore, the Professor could deliver a finely balanced lecture on the equation between money and old rope.

Professor Green plays Brixton Electric, December 15, 0845 401 5045

Professor Green
The Roundhouse
Chalk Farm Road
NW1 8EH