As someone told Lauren Laverne after Father John Misty’s intimate BBC Glastonbury session on Saturday morning: “Someone can’t be that good and that funny, surely he should choose one or the other.”

The on-the-money observation did miss one point not obvious to radio listeners– his extraordinary talents as a performer.

Father John Misty’s re-enactment of I Love You Honeybear, which made up much of his set at the De La Warr Pavillion, pulled off the impossible and improved a virtually flawless album.

Real name Joshua Tillman, he sported a grown out beard and hair and was a one-time member of Fleet Foxes.

But that’s where the indie-folk typecasting ended. Tillman was the antithesis of the introspective beanie-clad troubadour, with a self-confidence often absent today’s generation of singer-songwriters.

A towering presence, unabashedly handsome, and comfortable enough in his masculinity to camp it up and gyrate about, he acted out each cutting line with a flounce, shrug or lunge.

There was hardly a weak moment over nearly two hours, but it was his bookish and often hilarious lines that elevated this tranche of work to instantly canonical status.

In The Night Joshua Tillman Came To Our Apartment his skewing of late night chat was saved from snideness by its abundant wit: "And now every insufferable convo/Features her patiently explaining the cosmos/Of which she's in the middle".

Five stars