In a way, it didn't matter that José González was a champion mumbler. It might have frustrated those hoping to decipher the lyric to his hit single, Heartbeats, but this show was about going with the flow. And the flow, orchestrated by the Swedish-Argentinean songwriter (picture Antonio Banderas in loose-fit denim) and his classical acoustic guitar, was lo-fi and leisurely.

Brought to public attention by Heartbeats' use in a TV ad, González was confronted by a large, rapt crowd - quite a reception for someone who's essentially a niche artist, and probably soon will be again. The top-10 position of debut album Veneer owes something to the popularity of Sigur Ros, who work in the same atmospheric area, where songs find a hypnotic groove and get locked into it. González did much the same, albeit with a Latin flavour, and achieved the same effect: the crowd became enmeshed in the delicate samba-laced arpeggios and seemed barely to breathe, cocooned within a fragile framework of repetitive notes.

He dispensed with Heartbeats early, but did it proud. The other "pop" song was an unrecognisable version of Kylie's Hand on Your Heart, by which time he'd been joined by two percussionists.

Together, they worked Kylie into something warm and tactile, yet weirdly desolate. But it was Crosses, played in front of a video of some neon-lit American city, that best encapsulated the lonely-in-a-crowd feeling, summing up both the music and the man.