Atlantic records founder Ahmet Ertegun, Paolo Nutini�s early champion, would be proud, even if some of his successors at the label are said to be less than convinced.

Paolo Nutini Palace, Kilmarnock

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Atlantic records founder Ahmet Ertegun, Paolo Nutini's early champion, would be proud, even if some of his successors at the label are said to be less than convinced. The remarkably-voiced Paisley lad has taken his voracious appetite for music and used it to fuel a new album of astonishing diversity. We'll see what the world makes of Sunny Side Up when it is released on the first of next month, but the eclectic mix certainly appealed to the diverse audience he attracted here, from the devoted young ladies at the front to the barn dancers further back.

His compact band has expanded to the Paolo Nutini Seven with Glasgow's veteran blues harmonica man Fraser Spiers making up half the brass section, alongside multi-skilled Welsh horn player Gavin Fitzjohn. This R'n'B review combo can turn its hand to calypso, the blues of Little Walter, a bit of ska (Ten Out of Ten) and the Cash-derived country of Simple Things with nonchalant ease. Nutini's musical mischievousness extends to a double-speed "patter" verse in that last one, and some even faster vocalese in his jive-trad curiosity Pencil Full of Lead, a clear cousin of last year's cover of King of the Swingers from The Jungle Book.

Alongside all these new flavours, there is still room for community singalongs to hits from These Streets, including Loving You, Last Request and New Shoes, and current single Candy is most clearly where the two eras come together. Although the pacing of the set needs a little work, if Nutini can take the screaming girls with him on his journey there really will be no stopping him.

Paolo Nutini is at Inverness Ironworks tonight and the ABC, Glasgow, tomorrow.