Here’s a question for you: if we asked you to picture a singer-songwriter, what would spring to mind?
Actually, scrap that – we know exactly who you’d picture. In your mind, you’d get a vision of a sweet-yet-sad solo male, complete with an acoustic guitar, a flannel shirt, and a whole lotta’ feelings. You can try and deny it, but we know damn well that you’d summon up a mental image of a bloke who probably needs a shower, a cup of tea, and a hug; or, at the very least, one of someone vaguely resembling Ed Sheeran.
In all honesty, we wouldn’t be surprised if you were a bit sick of singer-songwriters by now.
After all, they are everywhere. Sometimes it feels like you can’t turn on the radio without hearing a tear-soaked piano cover of a classic pop song; other times, it feels like Spotify’s playlisting algorithms might just collapse under the sheer weight of earnest-and-sincere guitar music that seems to inhabit every corner of their murky servers. What a sad, sad time we live in.
But, dear reader, what if we told you that we’d stumbled across a singer-songwriter who managed to break that mould? What if we were able to break it to you that we’ve managed to find someone who not only takes the tropes of her genre and throws them aside, but that she stomps on these tired clichés with such vigour and violence that, when you find yourself watching a live set of hers, you find yourself completely and utterly unable to tear your eyes away from her?
She’s a little bit special, this one
Nottingham’s Georgie isn’t like most other singer-songwriters. Where most have sad songs, she has a snarl; where most have feelings, she has fury; and, where a sizeable chunk of the singer-songwriters we’ve seen supporting bigger acts have been dull enough to make us come close to nodding off, she has the ability to wake up even the doziest of middle-aged concert goers and positively force them to listen to her.
Her half-hour set supporting Jake Bugg at Bristol’s Colston Hall served as less of a warm-up slot, and more of a ‘get your arses out of your seats and have a good time with me’ set. Her set-up may have been small, but by God was it fierce: rarely have we seen one woman and an acoustic guitar convey so much passion and anger in one half-hour performance, but somehow she managed to do it.
We’re really struggling to pick out a highlight from this one
If we were being forced to pick, though, we’d say that it was her performance of new single – and standout track – Too Much TV that was the standout song of the set. We know that we’ve already said it, but we really can’t reiterate it enough: we can’t remember we saw someone convey so much power, frustration and disillusionment with modern society using nothing more than their acoustic guitar and their (admittedly rather impressive) voice.
It was great to watch, and it’s something that we really do think you should see for yourself – and, indeed, the same goes for Georgie herself. So, the next time that Georgie rocks up in your town, will you please make sure that you go along to her show? We promise that you won’t regret it.