There is nobody else doing what Bob Log III does. A full-body cannonball suit. A motorcycle helmet with a telephone receiver wired inside it for a mic. Slide guitar played at speed, drums worked with his feet, a kick pedal and a drum machine filling in the gaps. One man. The whole show.

He picked up the guitar at 11 and never really put it down. By his mid-teens he had found Mississippi Fred McDowell and the raw end of Delta blues, and that shaped everything that followed. In the early nineties he formed Doo Rag with percussionist Thermos Malling, a duo that built a devoted following on the strength of some of the most stripped-back, physically intense blues-punk anyone was making at the time. They toured hard and recorded with the same urgency. Then Malling quit mid-tour and Bob Log was left alone on the road with a decision to make.

He kept going. Stopped at a thrift store in Lawrence, Kansas, found a motorcycle helmet, wired a microphone inside it and figured out how to play guitar and drums at the same time. The suit came later. The whole thing sounds absurd until you see it, and then it makes complete sense. He signed to Fat Possum Records and released his debut in 1998. John Peel played him regularly. Tom Waits name-checked him. He has been touring more or less continuously ever since, around 150 shows a year, across North America, Europe, Japan, Australia and beyond.

His shows are loud, funny and deeply physical. He plays old Silvertone archtop guitars through thick strings tuned loose, which gives him a floppy, swampy sound that no one else quite replicates. The vocals come through distorted and compressed by the helmet, which only adds to the atmosphere. People dance. People end up on stage. Nobody leaves unaffected. He describes what he does as a guitar party, and that is exactly what it is.

Roman Candle have built their programme around artists who have depth and history and something genuinely their own. Cedric Burnside, Ryley Walker, Terry Reid, Michael Chapman. Bob Log III fits that list perfectly. He is an original, and originals are exactly what Roman Candle bring to Chester.

St Mary’s is the right room for this. Close enough that you feel every stomp. This is not a show you watch from a distance. Get there early and get close.