Phoebe Bridgers offstage and onstage at her largest UK headline show to date
Last night Phoebe Bridgers came back to the capital to stun a sold out crowd. We were there to capture the whole thing and go for a wander around Islington with Phoebe before the show.
"I remember being here this time last year and playing a tiny church," Phoebe tells a sold out Islington Academy Hall as she plays her largest ever headline show to date.
Before Phoebe took to the stage her collaborator and friend Harrison Whitford - illuminated almost exclusively by a microphone stand of fairy lights - performed a solo set running through his repertoire of delicate and fragile numbers. Think Demolition-era Ryan Adams. Bridgers joined him to close the with duets on ‘Part Time Heart’ and a cover of Paul Simon’s ‘Slip Slidin’ Away’.
“I remember being here this time last year and playing a tiny church,” Phoebe tells a sold out Islington Academy Hall as she plays her largest ever headline show to date. Continuing her run of full-band shows, Bridgers eased her way through Stranger in the Alps, reworking tracks from their album counterparts to fit the guitar, drums, piano and violin set up. There’s a ‘slowcore’ version of crowd favourite ‘Motion Sickness’, a stripped back cover of Tom Petty’s ‘It’ll All Work Out’ and an encore of ‘You Missed My Heart’ that left very few dry eyes in the house.
SETLIST: Smoke Signals / Funeral / Georgia / Would You Rather / Chelsea / Demi Moore / Killer / Steamroller / It’ll All Work Out (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover)/ Motion Sickness / Scott Street /You Missed My Heart (Encore)
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