Here's a link to Bryan's performance on Jools Holland's New Years Eve show with Van Morrison,Ronnie Wood and the late great Lonnie Donegan A few other big names in there too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVvkmWKu5M8

Ian, thanks for the video & making my day!

Check out how BF has to reference a handheld lyric sheet when he takes his verse!

I thought he was big Leadbelly fan? Oh well, it was midnight afterall...

He looks very uncomfortable,doesn't he.

Hootenanny!!

Bryan has a music stand with a lyric book on it when doing his own concerts so no surprise that he needed the sheet

Clearly BF (like the vast majority of rock stars) uses a teleprompter in his concerts. Nothing wrong/unusual about that. It just looks a little funny for him to be reading lyrics off of a slip of paper.

Elvis used to do it, too. But in a tongue in cheek sort of way.

I vividly remember being at my gran's one night and Lonnie Donnegan making an appearance on "The Good Old Days" music hall tv show, some time in the 70s; it made for car crash tv. He sang "Where Did You Get That Hat?" and was holding a hat in front of him while doing a pathetic dance, he was making a real fool of himself, fluffing the lyrics. At the end he took a bow and a sheet of paper with the lyrics on fell out of his hat, total embarrassment and cue the presenter pointing it out to everyone.