“It’s 10 years since my debut came out,” Jake Bugg told fans at the O2 Kentish Town Forum. Well, not quite, as October marks the official milestone. Not that Bugg’s legion of fans cared. Pints were chucked in the air amid a near-constant mosh pit of young men who were there to have fun no matter the facts.
The fans’ raucousness, however, didn’t match Bugg’s mild-mannered stage presence nor the trundling pulse of his largely folk-meets-rockabilly ditties. His rugged voice carried well above strums and skiffle beats, particularly on crowd-favourites Broken and Lightning Bolt from his 2012 self-titled debut. But the Nottingham troubadour never seemed to throw himself much into the thrill of live performing.
