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Jessie Ware: Bestival Review
Indie | Monday 17th September 2012 | Osh
As Jessie Ware elegantly coasted onto Bestival’s Big Top stage, she was greeted to a rapturous applause and sea of cheers. A talent that until recently had been bubbling under the surface accumulating small pockets of groove fanatics was about to stamp her mark in the big time.
Styled as a Cat for Saturday’s nature themed fancy dress celebration, Ware’s singing was undoubtedly as sublime as her outfit. Jessie’s is a voice that has received recognition from some upstanding counterparts; this year’s Mercury Prize has a slot allotted just for Ware alongside names such as Plan B and Ben Howard, already household names.
Ware’s set delicately drifted through her album ‘Devotion’, with numbers such as ‘Strangest Feeling’ and ‘Wildest Moments’ getting the most attention. Yet it was the Brixton girl’s most popular track ‘Running’ that really got the Alligators, Lions and Dinosaurs in the crowd excited. Ware looked confident on stage as she gently chuckled to what she described as the ‘best gig ever’ for her. ‘Running’ is a track that has already been mixed by ‘Disclosure’, had untold amounts of play time of Radio 2 and BBC 6 music alike and gave Ware her break into the mainstream.
The likes of Adele and Sade have been mentioned in the same bracket as this up and coming young lady, and for good reason. All share an undeniably unique voice that possesses the power to sit crowds on their arse with their mouth open in awe. Some people don’t need an introduction; Jessie Ware hardly needs music to get my attention.
By Maxwell Stott
