Here’s a fact for all you trivia junkies: with 500 performances under his belt Earl Okin is included in the Guinness Book of Records for being the most performed artist at the Edinburgh Festival. With this kind of exposure and experience you’d expect Earl to put on a pretty slick show. And he did. From the moment this versatile musician, songwriter and raconteur walked on stage his smooth seduction of the audience began.

Dressed in a three-piece suit, spats and horn-rimmed glasses, and playing either guitar or piano, Earl delivered a spot on musical performance of original songs and inspired renderings of contemporary classics such as a bossa nova version of ‘Teenage Dirtbag’. Earl’s irreverent journey through a variety of musical genres’including Andrew Lloyd-Webber show tunes – was intermingled with saucy comments about his ‘shivery bits’ as well the horny feeling he gets when improvising brass sounds using just the microphone and his mouth.

Even Earl’s idea of audience participation is given a sexual twist as he encourages us in a group singalong he calls ‘The Safe Sex Group Song’. By the end of his show, I’m feeling a little light-headed and I’m not sure if it’s because of Earl’s disturbingly seductive sexuality or the pervasive smell of the aftershave my neighbour in the audience is wearing. Either way, the experience leaves its mark, and I walk out of the show feeling like I’ve just been on a date with Austin Power’s long lost brother. And enjoyed it.