Kanye West not such a hit at parties

At the playback party for Kanye West's new 'pop' album '808 & Heartbreak', at Gaucho Grill in the 02 Arena, not only did the man himself sit by the CD Player throughout, banging his head, miming the words and gesturing with his hands, at one point stopping a track to tell us that these were the best lyrics he'd ever written, singing them all a capella (in a voice that wouldn't have seen him progress to Boot Camp on X Factor) then explaining why they're so good (they really weren't - every lyric on the entirely sung and auto-tuned album was freestyled, i.e. made up as he went along), then turning the song up, ball-quakingingly loud so we could all appreciate its true greatness. But he also wouldn't stop saying the kinds of things people with pigeons for friends mumble to themselves in bus queues.