There are only three certainties in a performance by guitarist Richard Durrant; the music will be superb, he will be disarmingly entertaining and you will want to see him again.

The man fits into no musical pigeonhole. This year Durrant is cycling the whole of a 1,000 mile concert tour of Britain. Riding alongside him is Sean Simington, who looks after just about everything except the actual playing of the music.

They have managed to package a pretty hi-tech performance into a couple of bike trailers. It involves bicycle lamps, bells and a laptop computer and solar power to charge stuff en route. On stage, a saddle-mounted projector beams on to a white guitar case substituting for a screen for some delightful animation to accompany the music.

The first half of the concert was from Durrant’s album Cycling Music, original compositions which feature sounds of bicycles, wheels, gears, spokes and bells, and on stage accompanying light effects with coloured bike lamps. It’s as fascinating technically as it is musically, and perhaps the gizmos occasionally distract.

But Durrant tells a good story too, and every piece of music has its tale and its characters, many of them his own family, brought to life by the musician, which makes you listen more intently.

The second half was more or less undiluted guitar, when we enjoyed Durrant’s mastery of his instrument. Barrios, Albeniz and Bach were all delivered in effortless style with Django Reinhardt’s version of Honeysuckle Rose as a finale.

Durrant accompanied Sean part of the way on a Lands End to John O’Groats cycle ride to raise money for the Big C cancer charity in Norfolk, in memory of Sean’s partner Shirley who died in 2013. Twenty per cent of the tour is going to the same charity.