This is not some weird variation on a RickRoll. We repeat, this is not some weird variation on a RickRoll.

Rick Astley played Dublin's Olympia Theatre on Tuesday night, which was a great gig by all accounts. He even threw in a cover of Ed Sheeran's 'Shape of You', complete with the half-rapped, half-sung vocal style, and made a fair fist of it.

Astley previously covered Foo Fighters' 'Everlong' in a teaser video for his tour, so this comprehensively proves that he is down with the kidz.

Watch it below: