Always inventive, quick-witted and entertaining, Beardyman was the perfect man to get on the mic in the Hot Press Hot Spot. Before his Saturday set in the Maxol Big Top, the man known to his mother as Darren Foreman swung by for a chat with our own Roe McDermott.

As you can see from the shot above, it all got very deep and analytical, very quickly.

It wasn't all talk though, naturally he was spitting other wondrous and weird sounds when the mood struck.

See (and hear) it all below. And stay tuned for plenty, plenty more...