Live music: James Blunt

Vicar Street, Dublin

The internet can destroy reputations but it can make them too. A case in point is James Blunt, whose wry, witty Twitter feed has disarmed those inclined to write him off as a guitar-abusing, soft-pop Beelzebub.

At a sold out Vicar Street, he displays the same light-footed humour, dropping self-deprecating asides and dedicating his biggest hit, ‘You’re Beautiful’, to one of the ink-stained scribes along to review the show.