Kele Okereke is a brave man. Not only did he officially come out several months ago – still a challenging thing to do in the staunchly heterosexual world of indie-rock – he has left the comfort zone of his successful band, Bloc Party, to launch a solo career.

And what a career this has the potential to be. Abandoning his trademark Fender Telecaster guitar in favour of a hedonistic synth-dance explosion of beats and bliss, Kele thrilled a packed Digital with a huge, europhoric new sound drawing on elements of trance, eurobeat, techno and house.

Looking super-sexy in baseball cap and black vest he performed tracks from his new album The Boxer as well as a couple of Bloc Party songs, suitably mashed up to his winning new dance formula but underpinned by that beautiful, distinctive vocal.

Bathed in lasers and riding waves of adulation, he cut a messianic figure, often looking more like an R ’n’ B star. “I think we’ve found the new British Jay-Z,” I heard someone shout at one point.

He also settled the question of whether his departure from Bloc Party was a temporary one by telling the audience “You might recognise this song from a band I used to be in”.

Kele will take his band, which includes two keyboard players/programmers and a drummer, on tour through the UK and Europe via the Leeds and Reading festivals before concluding appropriately, bearing in mind the new musical change of direction, in Ibiza.

This was an inspired musical reinvention by a man who looks set to become a global superstar.