HAWAIIAN singer songwriter, Jack Johnson, certainly knows how to please a crowd.

The Brit Award-winning artist did not seem at all daunted playing to a full house in Birmingham.

Johnson, who used to make surfing films before releasing his debut album, Bushfire Fairytales, in 2002, played song after song, hardly stopping for a break.

He was a man of very few words between the music but no-one seemed to mind.

Crowd favourites included Better Together, Breakdown and Sitting, Waiting, Wishing from last year's album, In Between Dreams, as well as Flake and Mudfootball from Bushfire Fairytales and Times Like These and Gone, from 2003's album On and On.

Each song was performed in his laid-back style and he was joined on stage by a group of talented musicians and support act Matt Costa for one song. An unexpected extra was a cover of the White Stripes' My Doorbell, which sounded a lot better than the original.

Although I thoroughly enjoyed the concert, I would have preferred to have seen Johnson in a smaller venue, as some of his songs are better suited to more intimate surroundings, rather than a big arena.HL