There’s a sure magic about Henry Moodie as he skips onto the Koko stage sporting a heart-emblazoned black vest, leather-based trousers and an enormous smile.
The 19-year-old has loved a stratospheric rise over the previous two years and bought out his personal headline present on the prestigious 1,500-capacity London venue – Girl Gaga, Bruno Mars and Amy Winehouse have all taken to the Mornington Crescent stage.
We’d be getting slightly forward of ourselves to be evaluating Moodie to these pop greats however what’s clear from the second the singer opens on ‘choose up the telephone’ on Friday evening is all of the elements are there in abundance.
It doesn’t take lengthy for the star to quote the pop music of 2005 to 2015 and his affect earlier than dipping right into a mash-up of Taylor Swift smash ‘Love Story’ and Katy Perry hit ‘Teenage Dream’. In a while within the evening, he brings The Vamps star and assist act James McVey again on stage for a rendition of ‘Anyone To You’.
These singalong moments are crowd pleasers however the true highlights of the night are available Moodie’s personal tales of teenage friendship and lovesickness. ‘closure’ is tender in its recounting of heartbreak whereas ‘you have been there for me’ is a vastly endearing ode to a finest pal.
There’s clearly lots extra to come back from the singer too with unreleased tracks within the vault. “This one is slightly bit miserable, sorry guys,” he jokes earlier than enjoying ‘The Previous Me’. Written in his bed room simply months in the past, the ditty fills Koko as Moodie muses on rocketing from schoolboy into the business beneath a highlight – it’s sensible songwriting.
The present’s manufacturing is minimal as Moodie leans on the tales in his songs and hovering vocals. Nonetheless, by the point he reaches the bridge of ‘Orbit’, the sound feels arena-sized.
The evening ends with a flourish because the star spins alongside to new single ‘beat up automotive’ earlier than delivering the viral ‘drunk textual content’. That ultimate tune is the choose of the lot, a captivating pop monitor from the guts that many would spend careers striving to put in writing, however amazingly that is clearly simply the beginning for Henry Moodie.
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