The Upcoming
  • Cinema & Tv
    • Movie reviews
    • Film festivals
      • Berlin
      • Tribeca
      • Sundance London
      • Cannes
      • Locarno
      • Venice
      • London
      • Toronto
    • Show reviews
  • Music
    • Live music
  • Food & Drinks
    • News & Features
    • Restaurant & bar reviews
    • Interviews & Recipes
  • Theatre
  • Art
  • Travel & Lifestyle
  • Literature
  • Fashion & Beauty
    • Accessories
    • Beauty
    • News & Features
    • Shopping & Trends
    • Tips & How-tos
    • Fashion weeks
      • London Fashion Week
      • London Fashion Week Men’s
      • New York Fashion Week
      • Milan Fashion Week
      • Paris Fashion Week
      • Haute Couture
  • Join us
    • Editorial unit
    • Our writers
    • Join the team
    • Join the mailing list
    • Support us
    • Contact us
  • Competitions
  • Facebook

  • Twitter

  • Instagram

  • YouTube

  • RSS

CultureMusicLive music

Rozi Plain at St John on Bethnal Green

Rozi Plain at St John on Bethnal Green | Live review
9 October 2015
Steven White
Avatar
Steven White
9 October 2015

Music review

Steven White

Rozi Plain at St John on Bethnal Green

★★★★★

Highlights

Rearrange

Links

Twitter Facebook Website

It feels a little like sacrilege, sat on a pew in a church surrounded by alcohol and raised voices. There’s no need to worry though: it’s not Sunday Mass. It’s late on a Wednesday and people are waiting inside St John on Bethnal Green for Rozi Plain to come on stage, or altar. An unorthodox setting, but it is East London.

Playing mostly songs off her latest album, she glides through the ambience of Five Beans and Jogalong with the help of her ever-changing band that tonight includes a saxophonist and a harpist. Plain (dressed in all-blue attire with a matching guitar) goes along with “umm” and “ahh” fillers and stories about drinking “the strongest coffee in the world yesterday” that she hasn’t quite returned to earth from. Everyone here is game for this kind of added entertainment and laughs hang high in the air.  

Yard, amid fumbling attempts to explain its origin, is the shortest and slowest roll of all the songs. “You are floating around,” she sings like she knows just how she’s making the room feel. Agreeable acoustics magnify the breezy delicacy of the sounds that are jolted only, albeit gently, in the last few numbers by the beats of Best Team and Rearrange, the last of which coaxes out some of the congress from their seats and into the nave for a small jive.

Plain once admitted that she’s played more support acts than main acts in her career and, perhaps because of it, this headline slot isn’t always there – Red Dot comes across loose and haphazard for example. At times the atmosphere is slightly listless, but great music and performances make for a pleasant evening.  

★★★★★

Steven White
Photo: Villunderlondon

 

For further information about Rozi Plain and future events visit here.

Watch the video for Jogalong here:

Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party.

YouTube privacy policy

If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh.

Related Itemslive musicreview

More in Live music

Adele lights up Hyde Park for BST Festival

★★★★★
Cristiana Ferrauti
Read More

St Vincent at the Hammersmith Apollo

★★★★★
Diletta Lobuono
Read More

The Rollings Stones give Glasto a run for its money at BST Festival in Hyde Park

★★★★★
Sarah Bradbury
Read More

Eagles bring a nostalgia-laden evening to the BST Festival in Hyde Park

★★★★★
Michael Higgs
Read More

Ed Sheeran at Wembley Stadium

★★★★★
Bev Lung
Read More

Elton John sparkles on his Farewell tour at BST Festival in Hyde Park

★★★★★
Cristiana Ferrauti
Read More

Twenty One Pilots at Brixton Academy

★★★★★
Regan Harle
Read More

Imagine Dragons at MK Stadium

★★★★★
Katherine Parry
Read More

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds at Kenwood House

★★★★★
Francis Nash
Read More
Scroll for more
Tap

Music review

Steven White

Rozi Plain at St John on Bethnal Green

★★★★★

Highlights

Rearrange

Links

Twitter Facebook Website

  • Popular

  • Latest

  • TOP PICKS

  • Paolo Nutini – Last Night in the Bittersweet
    ★★★★★
    Album review
  • Beauty and the Beast: The Musical at London Palladium
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • Brian and Charles
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • The Railway Children Return
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Viagra Boys – Cave World
    ★★★★★
    Album review
  • Black Bird
    ★★★★★
    apple
  • The End of the Night at Original Theatre Online
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • The Throne at Charing Cross Theatre
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • “We really wanted to create a cabbage gun”: An interview with David Earl and Chris Hayward stars of Brian and Charles
    Cinema & Tv
  • Flamenco Festival 2022 at Sadler’s Wells
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • Black Bird
    ★★★★★
    apple
  • Paolo Nutini – Last Night in the Bittersweet
    ★★★★★
    Album review
  • Viagra Boys – Cave World
    ★★★★★
    Album review
  • The Railway Children Return
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Adele lights up Hyde Park for BST Festival
    ★★★★★
    Live music
The Upcoming
Pages
  • Contact us
  • Join mailing list
  • Join us
  • Our London food map
  • Our writers
  • Support us
  • What, when, why
With the support from:
International driving license

Copyright © 2011-2020 FL Media

Dressed as a Girl | Movie review
Fresh Dressed | Movie review