With his familiar trucker hat and honest boozy songs Beans On Toast took to the stage for a night of heart-on-your-sleeve singalongs.

The folk singer from Essex hit The Haunt as part of his tour promoting The Grand Scheme Of Things - his fifth album in the past five years.

With just him, his classical guitar named Martin, a harmonica and occasionally a session guitarist the appeal of Beans on Toast comes did not come from musical ability or high brow professionalism.

Toast was one part singer-songwriter and one part bloke from down the pub, with basic three-chord structures and simplistic raw lyrics about girls you meet at festivals and the trials and tribulations of being skint.

He believed and felt every lyric and left his audience believing as well as they belted out the words like an old pub shanty.

During the show he called out for requests, told stories, bantered with the audience, stepped down into the dancing crowd and at one point sat singing while perched on the bar.

His no nonsense style left an evening with Beans on Toast feeling like a warm reunion with an old friend.