Rockin' with my dome boys - Raconteurs at Eden Project

Raconteurs/Vampire Weekend/The Verve Eden Sessions 2008

THE Eden Sessions finally came of age on Sunday night with an incendiary performance from the Raconteurs fresh from their triumph at Glastonbury the previous day.

After an enjoyable but pretty workmanlike performance from The Verve on Friday, Jack White and his compadre Brendan Benson took the stage by the scruff of the neck and restored my faith in the POWER OF ROCK as Jack White's nemesis Jack Black would have it.

The atmosphere was electric as the band arrived with Jack wearing some weird rawhide jacket that your strange Wild West obsessed uncle might have worn while Brendan was the epitome of cool in skinny jeans and leather jacket.

Launching into Consoler of the Lonely from the excellent album of the same name the band had the crowd in the palm of their hand from the outset. The Joe Jackson influenced Steady, As She Goes, their first ever single worked the crowd into a frenzy of pogoing while Blue Veins induced a performance of such incendiary power from Jack that it left everybody with their jaws on the floor.

While the band on paper is a partnership between Brendan and Jack this is very much Jack's band and when he took over on vocal duties the show was taken to a whole new level. While Richard Ashcroft from The Verve spent the whole evening arrogantly telling the crowd how brilliant they were while delivering a competent but not thrilling show, Jack hardly said a word all evening, just letting his talent do the talking.

It will take a few years I reckon for Eden to top a performance like this and I don't think The Kaiser Chiefs who play next are going to be the ones to do it.

Special mention must also go to support band Vampire Weekend whose African guitar rhythms were perfect for a sunny day amid the biomes and put everyone in a good mood for the main event.