As goodbyes go, this was short, sharp and clinical.

Mike Skinner is, he insists, done with The Streets after five full albums.

Where he goes next is unclear, but for tonight he's joined by a live band and a sell-out crowd at Oxford's O2 Academy as part of his farewell tour.

With a varied back catalogue of hits and misses, Skinner treads carefully with a mix of new material from Computers and Blues and the chant-along classics that have brought him a decade of acclaim.

His lyrics switch from introverted and thoughtful to belligerent and laddish, but the 32-year-old is perhaps a surprisingly accomplished showman throughout.

There's a rock-band attitude to him as he conducts a bouncing mosh pit and dives, topless, onto a bed of raised fans' hands.

His favourite trick – first performed at the unloved Wakestock festival at Blenheim Palace two years ago – is to part the audience down the middle and dash to the back of the venue.

This Cowley Road crowd – largely male and containing enough Oxford United fans to start up a few terrace anthems between songs – does an impeccable Red Sea impression.

With students already queueing to get in for a regular Wednesday club night, there's a strict 10pm limit to Skinner's shindig and his three-song encore does not stand on ceremony.

With a briefly emotional “this means a lot to me, Oxford”, the Brummie-Londoner fires off Fit But You Know It, Going Through Hell and debut-album opener Turn The Page to mass adulation.

“Looks like geezers raving,” he sings. Damn right they are.