Billy Connolly, The Pavilion, Bournemouth

UNLEASHED, uncensored and undeniably at his razor-sharp best the Big Yin went down a storm with the capacity BIC audience last night - the first of three consecutive Bournemouth shows.

The pace and energy hardly faltered as for two hours, without a break, the 64-year-old comic ranted and raged at today's PC world, the chasm between men and women, religion - and brown bread.

With a brutal honesty and hilarious insightfulness, he told it as it was using real life experiences and wonderfully embellished stories to keep us completely enthralled.

The physical comedy - from his impression of the half dozen over zealous singers on songs of Praise to the carefully held foetal-like pose of a woman wanting just a cuddle in bed - had tears rolling down our faces.

The guttural Glaswegian twang, loaded with well placed invitations to 'f' off, proved perfectly onomatopoeic as he road-rollered his way through usually sensitive subjects including religion and terrorism. Most of us could relate to his exasperation at satellite navigation systems and the extended tale about how he got lost amid the building works as Liverpool becomes an unrecognisable City of Culture. Despite seeming to ramble on, leading off on various tangents, there is tremendous skill involved in telling three or four stories at once and keeping us hanging on every word!

This is one outrageously funny comedian who just has to be seen live - catch him while you can!