Mr Hudson

Just as well - his upcoming album is produced by Kanye West who recently boasted that he never reads books.

But since those days he’s decamped to the States and curiously become some kind of protege of one Kanye West.

Chalk offers more than your average gig, as all types of electro, hip-hop and danceable music can be found at this weekly event. Topping the bill at the Scala this week were the heavily tipped Mr Hudson and the Library. Fusing reggae, soul, jazz and rock, their presence seemed apt for such a diverse clubnight

Three songs in and Mr (Ben) Hudson is a little concerned that he’s having 'a bad hair day’ and can’t seem to work out whether he should be wearing his trademark trilby or not. As the front man for The Library, perhaps this is understandable. Any other band, in standard issue of t-shirt’n’jeans, would allow hi

The Eminem-haired Oxbridge graduate is a charming host and dressed for the occasion in his fedora and waistcoat.

However Mr Hudson and the Library's poor choice of moniker is matched at Cabaret Voltaire by some dreadful lapses of taste on the musical front.

But last Friday night the bespectacled head book keeper at the Swiss Cottage Library threw caution to the wind and allowed Mr Hudson and his prodigiously talented band The Library to shake the folios from the shelves.