Star rating: *** Halfway through a tour that takes writer and performer Charlie Dark from Southampton to Inverness with a show that originated at Birmingham Rep, the poet and DJ might have hoped to see more faces in his Wednesday evening audience.

Star rating: ***

Halfway through a tour that takes writer and performer Charlie Dark from Southampton to Inverness with a show that originated at Birmingham Rep, the poet and DJ might have hoped to see more faces in his Wednesday evening audience.

The flipside (probably a dub in this show) is that this critic's was possibly the oldest, (still) a rare occurrence in Scottish theatre. We happy few were charmed anyway by the reminiscences of a former B-Boy who tasted the superstar DJ life and found it lacking. The moral lesson for the young folk was unmissable, but the former Attica Blues and Urban Poets Society man is perhaps nearer my vintage.

His memoir begins with his first gig: Public Enemy at Brixton Academy, a tour I caught at Glasgow's Barrowland, so I can vouch for the detail. That commitment to authenticity is probably what is meant by "keeping it real" and other chapters involving jazz dancing at the legendary Dingwalls club and a trip to Ghana to visit his father ring equally true. The flaw in the piece is that the personal swamps the broader picture, leaving a downbeat ending more eloquent about the life of Charlie Dark than the fickle way the music industry operates.

At Eden Court, Inverness, tonight, and The Byre, St Andrews, tomorrow