It is a bold performer who combines his meal-ticket job with his passion project, particularly touring another continent. But Tim Heidecker has the charm to carry it off. The Tim & Eric star has always juggled and blended different artforms and this evening is a firmly partitioned two-act show split between comedy and music, with just a little of the former bleeding into the latter.

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Effectively warming the stage up as his own support, the American's hack stand-up character is a polished creation of ineptitude. Spoofing the sort of would-be libertarian edgelord that the States seems to indulge and encourage, he's a thinly veiled right-wing ideologue. Anti-vax, railing against the nanny state and demanding the incarceration of Hillary Clinton, with a call-and-response refrain of 'No More Bullshit!', his smug, self-satisfied chuckles to himself recall George W Bush.

Equally though, there's something vaudevillian in the hapless fumbles with his microphone and stage slapstick. And his malapropisms call to mind as British a character as Count Arthur Strong, exquisitely fluffing his lines with words so ever-so-slightly wrong that they're right. Straining to shoehorn in Scottish references while retaining his rebellious posture, it's an act of wretched and entertaining desperation. Maybe not in the class of his regular collaborator Gregg Turkington's grotesque showbiz lag Neil Hamburger, but consistently amusing, just varied enough to sustain a half-hour set.

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Re-emerging with his accomplished four-piece band, Heidecker's soft rock and country songs are endearing tunes of nostalgia and the struggles of life. But there's also a hilarious solo rendition of Bob Dylan's 'Lenny Bruce' in which he, by turns, sincerely sings and incredulously rips apart the alternately inspired and clunking lyrics. And a barnstorming, bare-chested encore culminates in his and Turkington's paean to urine, ‘Hot Piss’ by The Yellow River Boys.

Tim Heidecker: No More Bullshit/The Very Good Band reviewed at The Garage, Glasgow.