MANAGER ROY Hodgson reckons some England players can't manage three 90-minute outings in nine days at Euro 2016. Try playing 11 shows in nine days on his own European travels, as Settle's sound of soul, John Newman, has just done.

Tired? No way, as he tore into an 80-minute set for the Forestry Commission's Forest Live weekend at Dalby Forest on Saturday, in the home gig he couldn't wait to play as he ripped through Eastern Europe on his "mental" schedule.

His band had arrived first, dapper in white jackets and black shirts, as they took their place on an expanse of white steps, above which Newman rose on a hydraulic lift to make his entrance, in a black and white jacket, white shirt and black trousered combination; the overall look recalling the great days of soul revues.

Newman, a no-nonsense Yorkshireman with a vintage Memphis soul voice, echoes Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett, rather than Yorkshire's last lung-buster, Joe Cocker, and Saturday's exhilarating set found him in thrall to the express power of soul music to move feet and heart alike.

Newman worked himself to a standstill in a dozen songs, accompanied by an old-fashioned brass section, but ultramodern guitar, keyboards and percussion, reaffirming that the only Sam Smith that matters in Yorkshire is a beer.

Hit piled upon hit, from the new Give Me Your Love to Cheating and Blame It On Me, while Losing Sleep and the slow-burning I'm Not Your Man showed Newman's tender side. The set-closing Come And Get It and the encores Not Giving In and Can You Love Me Again made for a spectacular end to a Dalby classic. Even the rain swamping North Yorkshire elsewhere had stayed away, declining to dampen his homecoming parade.