Unsurprisingly, fans were made to wait until the encore for Skinny Love, the song that made her a star in Australia - and they duly went nuts. She dutifully threw in the John Butler Trio’s What You Want, which was added to a local rerelease of the album.
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He and the dextrous female acoustic guitarist/keyboard player also provided some sterling back-up vocals that lifted the Fleet Foxes’ White Winter Hymnal somewhere special.Īs with many rising stars touring with just one album behind them, Birdy played every last track - and had enough in reserve to comfortably fill out a set of just over an hour that didn’t outstay its welcome thanks to her movie soundtrack contributions to The Hunger Games and Brave. The cellist in particular added an extra dimension with some urgent work on Phoenix’s 1901 and a solo on the final track of the main set - The National’s Terrible Love - that was so frenzied it knocked his hipster hat to the floor. The versatile four-piece - drummer, cellist, guitar/keyboardist and guitar/bassist - helped flesh out the songs to give a better representation of the album and also added a variety and urgency that papered over the occasional flat spot and stayed mostly on the right side of not upstaging the main attraction.
Having performed solo at the Logies on Sunday night and after a whirlwind promo tour last year, Birdy brought a band with her this time.
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ITS fair to say that Birdy is a young woman of few words.įrom her assured stage performance, powerful vocals, well-crafted covers and promising originals the only thing that draws attention to the 16-year-old British singer-songwriter’s tender years is the fact she uttered not a word until after her second song and thereafter limited herself to the most perfunctory of introductions and thank-yous.īut to be fair, the sizable, if a little subdued crowd on hand at Melbourne’s Palais Theatre on Monday night didn’t come to hear the singer born Jasmine van den Bogaerde spin yarns and crack gags - they came to hear that voice.Īnd the prodigiously talented teen didn’t disappoint, filling the venue to the rafters with her extraordinary pipes from the moment she sat down at her grand piano to play a compelling solo version of The xx’s Shelter, the first of many covers she has made her own on her chart-topping, twice-platinum selling self-titled album.