Victoria Hesketh’s stage name ‘Little Boots’ is an ode to the naughty Roman emperor Caligula, and with performances like this her career should be as prestigious as his legacy.
It wasn’t all plain sailing though; her mother forgot to bring her shoes. I know right? The petite maiden was rescued thanks to social networking site Twitter, after a fan lent her a pair of size threes.
The nightmare didn’t stop there – a power out prematurely ended ‘Mathematics’. Ever the optimist, she powered through the electrical shortcomings by belting it out A Capella, with the crowd on backing vocals.
The Blackpool native recently topped the BBC’s Sound of 2009 list (previous winners include Adele and Corrine Bailey Rae) and with Kate Bush influenced songs and Human League covers it’s easy to see why.
The blonde siren maintains she wants to be as “big as Kylie” and the foundations have been firmly laid, with humdingers like ‘Stuck on Repeat’, ‘Meddle’ and Freddie Mercury cover ‘Love Kills’ whipping the audience into a mish-mash of flailing limbs and toothy grins.
There’s even an appearance from former Big Audio Dynamite vocalist and cult hero Don Letts. Big Audio Dynamite, for those who don’t know, was started by former Clash front man Mick Jones.
A hangover cleansing nap saw to it that I missed support act Everything Everything, but I strongly recommend you give those local boys a whirl. Big things indeed, on both counts.
4 out of 5.
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