Wearing a sharp three-piece blue suit and opening a set of scorching blues with the powerful chugging 'This Train', from his current album 'Blues of Desperation', JoBo got the evening's boogie and blues set purring into gear and motoring along nicely.

The veteran effortlessly beguiled his devoted fans out of their seats to lap up his incendiary guitar artistry.

He followed up by injecting a sunny feel to an original re-working of Eric Clapton's 'Mainline Florida' before pulling out all of the stops with the show-stopping heavy drama of current album title track 'Blues of Desperation' and its darker and more brooding atmospheric guitar work.

If his singing doesn't quite match the pain and desperation of his cherished blues idols, Bonamassa certainly proves he is not just a one trick guitar pony. Guitar licks as sharp as a scalpel cut through the venue's pristine acoustics.

With a versatile crack band of well-seasoned blues players watching his back and effortlessly supporting his every move, he turned a throwaway Led Zeppelin cover of 'Boogie with Stu' into a good time swing version.

This was a masterstroke. Reese Wynans on keyboards, Michael Rhodes on bass and Anton Fig on drums pumped the joyous audience up out of their seats with superbly slick rhythmic interplay.

In a well-judged set, Bonamassa covered a huge terrain of styles from ballads to full-on blues bluster, with an astute ear for cover versions mixing in with his self-penned originals.

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