Paolo Nutini, Royal Albert Hall
    
      
  
  
   
Gravel-voiced Scot makes a plausible case for his Meltdown inclusion
Earlier this week, when the line-up for Richard Thompson’s Meltdown  festival was announced, one name in particular will surely have raised a  few eyebrows: Paolo Nutini. Among the appearances by serious old  folkies and earnest young Wainwrights and an “evening of political song”  that Thompson has planned for his stint as curator of the annual  festival on London’s Southbank, a show from this young Scottish singer  and songwriter seemed a bit of a lightweight choice; perhaps even a  controversial one.
      
   
          