Project Description
SIGRID
@ Beach Road Hotel
(Live Review)
26/02/18
Review by Georgia Dickinson
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Norwegian youngblood Sigrid had a hell of a year in 2017. Her debut EP Don’t Kill My Vibe gained international success, gaining over 100 million global streams alone. She featured on the soundtrack for 2017 blockbuster Justice League with ballad ‘Everyone Knows’, and more recently, was announced as the winner of the BBC Music Sound of 2018 award, who previous alumni include Adele, Sam Smith and Ellie Goulding. However, the 21-year-old pop sensation’s success has not slowed down, especially with her recent appearance at Sydney City Limits. But before she continues to conquer the world, the 21-year-old presents a special performance in Bondi’s Beach Road Hotel, which had fans and critics alike entering the room with high expectations.
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Sigrid at Sydney City Limits – By Amy Halpin
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Sigrid stands a foot shorter than her backing band and probably the entire audience but absolutely belts every lyric as she kicks off her performance with ‘Plot Twist’. Heavy synth and drum beats filled the room as everyone swayed along and Sigrid, elation in her face, wastes no space on stage to perform. She shares new songs with the audience like the sticky sweet ‘Schedules’ and ‘Raw’, a slower pop ballad with reggae undertones. However, it doesn’t matter what songs Sigrid sings she has already successfully captured the crowd before her into her web of hypnotising pop.
However, Sigrid is human like the rest of us. “It’s going to get really sad now” says Sigrid before playing the slowest song in her set, ‘Dynamite’. It has the crowd in pure silence as her voice drips into the room like honey. It’s Sigrid at her most vulnerable and it resonates in the audience as she sings “You’re as safe as a mountain but know that I am dynamite”.
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Sigrid at Sydney City Limits – By Amy Halpin
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To lift up the tone of the show, Sigrid states, “I’m about to say something really cheesy… I love Australia”. And it’s evident from the wide smile on her face that she’s genuine in her words. She finishes her secret performance with two of her biggest singles to date; the most recent of the two being ‘Strangers’, which earns a cheer of familiarity from the crowd. There’s dancing, there’s phones capturing every moment and in the midst of it all is Sigrid having a ball on stage with her backing band. But what woos everyone in the room over is the closer ‘Don’t Kill My Vibe’, and within the last three minutes, the crowd surrendered their inhibitions to Sigrid and the music that bursts from the stage.
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Sigrid at Sydney City Limits – By Amy Halpin
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Within half an hour, Sigrid made a crowd in an intimate bar fall in love with her. And as me and everyone else departs, we know it’s only a matter of time before she fills much bigger rooms than the one on the second floor of Beach Road Hotel. But it’s a memory we as a crowd will never forget, and it’s bittersweet to know that we were fortunate enough to see her in such intimacy.
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