Buck 65 / The Levee Strollers @ King Tut's, 11 November

Tonight's support act are a downhome (although Glaswegian) country and western band called The Levee Strollers. Their enthusiastic but wholly incongruous performance amuses and perplexes in equal proportion, but then Richard 'Buck 65' Terfry himself arrives. Consummate showman that he is, he breaks out a rendition of rare track Indestructible Sam, based around a banjo riff and a fat boom-bap beat. Suddenly the support band make perfect sense.

Buck has twenty years in the game – that's a big back catalogue to choose from. He does it epic justice, performing for two hours, reeling out classics like All There Is To Say About Love, Bandits, and 463 alongside insane rarities and cast-offs like deeply silly new track NSFW Music Video (“watch for the crotch / little bit of titty, yo”), another rap made entirely of the first lines of sexy spam emails, and a rip-roaring, totally illegal cover of Bronski Beat's Small Town Boy.

In the encore, he finally reveals material from the colder, more melancholy forthcoming album, the beats nodding to dubstep and chillwave. He finishes with rousing and hilarious renditions of Zombie Delight and Centaur (with dance routines), and a remix of Roses and Bluejays featuring samples from Angelo Badalmenti's Twin Peaks score. With hilarious between-song banter, and a restless, manic energy, performing his own scratch routines and rapping simultaneously, Buck 65 proves once again that when it comes to live shows, he's the best-value rapper in the business. [Bram E Gieben]