When I arrive at the Hi Fi I am not expecting everyone else to already be there, but they ALL are, or so it seems, and I have to awkwardly crowd-walk my way in. This date sold out well in advance and the venue looks completely full…. Full of people who have arrived promptly and are clearly just waiting patiently for Jake Bugg.

For now, though, they seem happy watching The Growl, which tonight is Cameron Avery solo. He does a bit of looping and harmonica-playing, and uses a couple of microphones, creating a sort of one-man-band thing rather than an acoustic set like I was expecting.

Next up are The Creases, who play a fun, summery-garage set, and after I won’t wait, completely throw themselves into a cover of that 1999 song, She’s So High, by Tal Bachman, and it is awesome. To be honest, they play something good at the end and I'm pretty sure they said it was new but I can’t hear what they're saying and they’ve only got one song on Soundcloud, so for more information see them at Splendour.

After the break, a bit of Robert Johnson gives us the signal, and Jake Bugg marches onstage to kick off with There’s a Beast and We All Feed It. This is obviously what everyone’s been waiting for, and the crowd sings right through songs like Seen It All, Me and You, Two Fingers and Messed up Kids, which are all early on in the set.

It is ridiculous that this guy has just turned 20 (I had thought everyone was going on about the age thing years ago, and he must now be much older judging by this show, but nope, still 20). Twenty year olds are stupid and insecure but Jake Bugg seems incredibly self-assured, he just smashes out brilliant song after brilliant song, and it all looks so effortless it kind of makes you want to hate him for being so young and amazing.

The no-nonsense set has a good mix of sad, acoustic guitar songs like Broken and noisy band songs like Slumville Sunrise. There is, however, no room for witty locality/landmark related banter. Jake Bugg is not here to have a chat. That's fine by me though, and probably most other people here, who are singing along to every word. For the encore, we hear the slow, kind of sad A Song About Love which just happens to be great again. In case you can't tell I'm a little bit impressed now.

It looks like all those people who bought tickets months in advance are happy, and it's good to be able to say after such high expectations Bugg didn't disappoint. Possibly no one's leaving feeling like they've made a new bff, the no-talking thing was a bit weird at first, but surely sometimes its nice to have more music than awkward landmark and weather discussion.

On the long, long way out, people are loudly complaining about a bottleneck caused by The Creases deciding to have a nice conversation by the exit, but they seem oblivious. They can be forgiven because they played She’s So High and I’m in a really good mood because I just saw an amazing musician inspire me with seemingly effortless brilliance for an hour or so. So that was a good night, fingers crossed Jake Bugg comes around again soon.… hopefully with a new album.

Jess