Plan B's tight raps are rifled through with jaw-droppingly honest images and underscored by his acoustic guitar. That’s right, acoustic rap... it shouldn't work. Yet anyone that’s heard his Who Needs Actions When You’ve Got Words? Album will tell you that he is the hottest thing to arrive in the scene for years.  | | Plan B (pic: Shirlaine Forrest) |
After a quick slip of Summer Holiday from his DJ, Plan B bounces on stage holding a t-shirt emblazoned with the message ‘Listen Up… You ****’ and the brutality of his approach is like a smack in the face. A couple of tunes in and you realise exactly why. He is the voice and the conscience of today’s disenchanted teens, the soundtrack of a Jeremy Kyle boot camp, who slaps you round with his brilliant observations about paedophiles singing on Top of the Pops and happy-slapping kids bottling each other, and leaves you stunned that he’s cut through the theories and the sheen and seen the modern world for what it is.  | | Plan B (pic: Shirlaine Forrest) |
What makes him special though is that he backs up all this social commentary with fine tunes. The crowd, proudly proclaimed by Plan B as “the biggest set on the whole tour”, bounce and dance along to fine rhythms and beats, hooked in by B’s clever little riffs. His encore sees an explosion of light and movement from the rapper, with an appropriately brutal cover of Roots Manuva’s Witness (One Hope) sticking a mighty exclamation mark on a formidable set. The lights come on and the crowd head quickly for the exits with the intention of getting one of those t-shirts. There’s one thought bubbling amongst them… the future is here, Plan B is the most exciting artist you will see all year. Spread the word. | 
