Rae Morris has been cropping up in a lot of places over this summer, from Radio 1 to featuring on Bombay Bicycle Club's newest album and Clean Bandit. After giving her a listen her music became increasingly addicting and soon became a main feature on my Spotify summer playlist. For such a cheap price I then could not resist myself a ticket to see her in Brighton.
Situated underneath Brighton Station, the tiny venue suited perfectly for an intimate gig which is definitely what we were intended to be part of.
Filling up quickly of people of all ages, we were welcomed with her support, Paul Thomas Saunders. His mellow, soft songs rather than psych the audience, relaxed us while making us chuckle with his awkward, but polite self promotion for his album.
Excitement soon arose while we all patiently waited for Rae to emerge. To prove how intimate the venue was, Rae and her band arrived through the crowd onto the stage. Bursting straight into 'Skin' the audience were greeted and away she went.
Although Morris' album is yet to be released her setlist was taken from her EP's and included her new single, 'Closer', which had us all moving along. Another highlight would be how Rae developed 'Cold' from a duet to a solo. Normally with the song, you can feel an emotional battle play out between the male and female vocals but as a solo it worked to really drive in one sided heartache with the lyrics.
Interestingly, although Rae spent the majority of her set behind her keyboard, as we would expect, she did perform 'Love Again' stepped away from it. It gave her a sense of vulnerability, but that made her even more appealing to see she wasn't afraid to face us without her trusty piano.
Of course she did an encore, one we were all dying to hear more of, which she provided with us alone to perform 'Not Knowing'. It was delicately performed and was brilliant to see her on her own, once the band joined they dived into 'This Time' which pushed the final song to end the show off fantastically.
Afterwards Rae and her band were met with fans which they were exceedingly grateful to. I myself got the chance to thank Rae and her brilliant band for the evening and their fantastic performance. Below is a photo of Rae and I after I thanked her and told her how much I was gutted I'd not got the chance to get a ticket for her Cardiff date with George Ezra, a tour which if there are tickets left, I urge you to buy.
Rae is definitely one of my favourite new artists this year and January really can't come quick enough for her album to explode onto the charts.
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