Love him or hate him it was clear on the latest leg of James Blunt’s world tour in Cardiff, that he is a born performer.

Dressed bizarrely in a spacesuit as a tongue-in-cheek (I think!) promotion of his latest, fourth album, Moon Landing, he moved seamlessly from guitars to ukulele to piano in a set that contained a mixture of both old and new numbers.

While Bonfire Heart is undeniably the stand-out single from the new album, Miss America, a tribute he penned to the late Whitney Houston was also well-received by an appreciative audience.

The first to acknowledge that most of his music is miserable, Carry You Home and the ubiquitous Goodbye My Lover both received standing ovations, and he made ease of tempo change by inviting the audience to dance along to Heart to Heart and Same Mistake.

Over the years, Blunt has suffered the wrath of critics, and, cleverly, his disarming response has been to join in. Nowadays this humility and self-deprecating wit merely serve to highlight the undeniable mastery of his songwriting.

The fact is, he puts on a professional, highly entertaining show, and we should undermine him at our peril as he will be around for a long time yet.