Robin Ince's comedy has similar properties to a superfluid helium fountain – it never stops flowing, creeping up the sides of the constraints put on it to find a way out.

Ostensibly a show about the marvels of the human brain, In And Out Of His Mind soon ran out of control – moving from tangent to tangent as Ince hit upon new stories he wanted to tell.

Admitting he was trying to condense into an hour a show he had never done in less than two-and-a-half hours, soon he was way behind time with alarms pinging to encourage him to wrap up, while a projector screen lay idle behind him, forgotten in the flow.

But the stories he was telling were so fascinating it hardly mattered. As well as describing the MRI and EEG tests he put himself through, he mixed domestic observations with stories about the greatest minds in the world – including plenty of digs at science heartthrob Brian Cox.

From the Nobel Prize-winning genius unable to open a taxi door to the wizard who defeated Cox in an argument about perception it was an engaging and hilarious hour, which seemed over too soon.

The urge to impart information seems to bubble up inside Ince - if he didn’t have a stage and an audience to share it who knows what might happen to him.