Callum Beattie starts tonight’s packed-out show at the Globe with an audience-friendly blend of stripped-back singer-songwriter material, with set-closer, ‘Home’, stealing a show full of Kelly Jones’-styled husky/emotive vocals blended with interesting stories about non-interesting lives.
He’s the perfect warm-up for true rock ‘n’ roller Amy Macdonald who ploughs into tonight with the type of drive, commitment and battering right leg that would see Mr Strummer and Mr Springsteen nod in approval both in terms of the delivery and also the call to arms direct style of songwriting.
A sing-along version of ‘Slow it Down’ and a pounding take of ‘This is the Life’ steal a show where Macdonald plays rock ‘n’ roll with the type of dedication that reminds you that the right song, at the right time, sung by the right person, can mean more than just about anything else.
