On the last day of the first ever New To Q Sessions, anticipation is looming large between the oddly shaped walls of Notting Hill's Tabernacle.
With 2009's much publicised new generation of female pop singers, this week has already seen two of the Greatest New Hopes showcase their contribution to their respective scenes, and by the end of tonight that number will have doubled.
Daisy Coburn, travelling under her moniker Daisy Dares You, is young, blonde and immediately comes off as something in the direction of a guitar-wielding X-factor contestant. She struggles with sound problems, high notes and a wayfaring top throughout the set, but certainly does her best to impress, frequently headbanging to the pseudo-nu-metalesque middle eights that consistently intersect the tweenrock of her performance.
But, inevitably, a set resembling a scenario where Miley Cyrus is jumping around to Paramore isn't really what people are here to witness.
What they are here for though, is Brit Award / Sound Of 2010 winner Ellie Goulding. The 23-year old singer, whose background in folk and fondness for electronica made label execs and journos alike invent new superlatives late last year, is still recording her debut album, and has already amassed enough column space to make room for bloodthirsty critics to turn sour, nudging her towards being a 'new Dido'. Their attention span then, not recollecting the greatness of first single Under The Sheets, surely the last great pop song of the noughties/ first great pop song of the tens.
Tonight, however, Goulding is battling laryngitis. She keeps her set short (take notice, Miike Snow), but within the 30 minutes she's onstage, she delivers some of the strongest and most hook-filled pop songs of the week, drawing in a variety of influences, all coated with Goulding's trademark voice.
This Love Will be Your Downfall is discopop at its most dancefloor-filling and sees as such some frantic toe-tapping amidst the crowd, whilst The Writer puts the sweeping in ballad, swiftly prompting some frantic, ahem, swaying. She does a clever rendition of fellow New To Q headliner Midlake's 2006 track Roscoe before finishing off with a deadly combo of Under The Sheets and current single, the inexplicably Imogen Heap-referencing Starry Eyed.
12:33 PM | 01/02/2010
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I think mention should be made of newcomer Liam Bailey who delivered a first class set especially as it was his first gig. Slight nerves were soon dispelled by a crowd who absolutely loved his set. Hope theres an album forthcoming.
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