It's the perennial problem for all fresh-faced pop kids. How to translate immediate and global pop chart domination into something resembling a career.

Do you, like Busted, jack it all in rather than ride out the rocky patch?

Or, like brothers Zac, 19, Taylor, 22 and Isaac, 24, do you extricate yourself from your record contract, set up a label and for all intents and purposes go back to the drawing board?

Hanson are back, and frankly, quite brilliant.

They exhibit sincerity and musical integrity, so tellingly absent from the current crop of hideous pop combos.

Hanson live give a masterclass in pure power pop. The likeable lads from the States can really play.

Carl Stroud