Eels @ Royal Concert Hall, 28 Feb

For all his dabbling with orchestras and fronting hard rock bands in recent years, it's hard to know quite what to expect of the enigmatic Mark Everett from tour to tour; a notion bolstered by the fanboy frustration that the Eels curator rarely looks back. That all changes tonight, however, as readings from E's autobiography and a pre-gig screening of the BBC documentary on the legacy of his quantum physician father - Hugh Everett III - dovetail into an unprecedented set of classics. A solo rendition of It's a Motherfucker eases the crowd in gently before E and 'The Chet' indulge in 90 minutes' worth of two-piece reinterpretations, of which highlights emerge in the predictable grandeur of Flyswatter and Novocaine for the Soul. But it's the poppy simplicity of PS You Rock My World that so perfectly punctuates the performance and hammers home a pertinent reminder of Everett's oblique - but surely inherited - genius. Here's to the next decade of it. [Dave Kerr]