HARRY STYLES Fine Line (Erskine Records/Sony) The thing I love most about this Harry Styles album, and its self-titled predecessor too, isn’t its music. Though really that’s pretty damn good and I’ll get to it in a minute. What gives me the most pleasure is how much fun Styles is having, how much joy there is in his writing, singing and recording, and how clear it is that this is what he wants to be doing. That last bit sounds so obvious it’s almost axiomatic: of course it’s

HARRY STYLES Harry Styles (Sony) Lowered expectations can do wonders for the merely adequate as plenty of people, from the 15th Tinder date (oh, good, he’s brushed his own teeth) to Scott Morrison (oh look, he didn’t light his budget cigar made from the skin of the unemployed) can attest. So there was a note - a big thumping chord actually - of caution as the first album from this former One Directioner played through a couple of times and seemed not at all bad. Maybe even go

Oh look, Harry Styles is all growed up Ma, with a big boy’s pants album out right now. But what was it like when he first flashed that smile and shook that hair on these shores as one member of a certain boy band? Wind Back Wednesday has only One Direction and that’s to the past, 2012 to be precise. ONE DIRECTION Hordern Pavilion, April 13 All last week the usual grumps were bemoaning the end of civilisation, or at the least the final nail in the coffin of popular music, beca