VERSAcoustic @ Bongo Club

Emma Pollock has admitted to being slightly panicked on her future plans following the break up of the Delgados. She needn't have worried. As her storming performance at this Versacoustic show proves, her reincarnation as a solo artist gives every sign of momentousness. Before Pollock's star-turn, the packed and receptive audience at this, the final installment of Tennent's' free-beer fuelled acoustic love-in, were treated to sets from Glaswegian folksters Lucky Luke and venerable Caledonian troubadour Eugene Kelly.

Lucky Luke (3/5) are obviously in thrall to sixties acts like Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention and their musicianship and enthusiasm for the task in hand could not be faulted. Nevertheless, there were times when their aspic-preserved style strayed dangerously close to the comedic, gauche earnestness that earned folk a bad name in the first place.

Kelly's set upped the songwriting ante somewhat – the veteran ex-Vaselines and Captain America man mixing new material with classics such as the Kurt Cobain-endorsed Molly's Lips and Jesus Doesn't Want me for a Sunbeam.

Pollock (4/5) then rounded off the night in style – her swooping voice, killer melodies and charismatic ethereal-yet-forceful presence serving notice of a major artist in the making. [Duncan Forgan]