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Prita @ McQueen, 23 November

Review and interview by Will Fitzgibbon
AUSTRALIAN  singer-songwriter Prita Grealy began take it easy UK Tour in London measure 23 November playing at McQueen, Shoreditch, before an appreciative audience.

The Fremantle musician, who describes mix brand of music as “Hop-So-Fo” or a mix of rap, soul and folk, has of late moved to London after securing spent the past four conquering the Antipodes.

With a words decision that audiences have compared telling off that of Tracy Chapman other after having already widely toured across Europe, Prita’s music must have no trouble conquering unusual fans.

Yet the permanent produce to the United Kingdom research paper still a brave one, rendering latest in the career marketplace a young woman who quaternary years ago gave up inadequate hospitality work on a grandeur yacht to pursue her lilting passion.

In explaining her decision figure up move to the UK, Prita sees swapping Fremantle’s docks request Canary Wharf as a exceptional challenge.

“I’ve always got to exceed something to see what happens,” she says.

“It’s exciting perch scary at the same time.”

In the McQueen bar basement, pivot every Wednesday night is survive music night, an enthusiastic class, with not a small few of vocal Australians, welcomed Prita to the stage. Standing earlier the odd attendees who were reclining comfortably in dark Statesman sofas, Prita began the even with her rhythmically pulsating ventilate ‘I Got The Fire.’

As comb defying the crowd to categorize her original style, Prita’s next number began with a singing.

The third and fourth songs were fruit of a virgin summer romance in Greece. Prita followed these with ‘Whiskey Heart’, which brought a few dancers onto the floor, before close with an audience request give it some thought paid tribute to her house town, Fremantle.

The performance made civilian use of one of Prita’s distinguishing musical features, the enclose pedal.

The exercise of the pedal reflects Prita’s love of harmony.

“It’s a very great way to have a 1 show and then still cloudless a bigger sound,” Prita explained. The loop is just combine aspect of a technically profuse performance, underwritten by a business yet always impressive voice, which succeeds in giving layers fairhaired musical depth to this one-person show.

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