Nadine Shah

Ducking under the low ceiling to climb on to the stage Nadine Shah, who is tall and made significantly taller by her high heel boots, looked back at the steps and gestured at them laughing and cajoling the audience to join in the joke. This is what its like watching Nadine perform. Its like you're down the pub with all her mates watching her crack out a few tunes while having a laugh.

Except the music is generally dark and brooding and often times ascerbic and cutting. Then her voice, tremulous, smokey, deep and practically perfect with all its quirks, sung in her native north east dialect simply takes your breath away.

We got most of the new album and quite a few of her older stalwarts. My favourite was the first encore, Divided from the new album. Nadine picking out the repeated two notes on her guitar subtly backed by just one additional guitar and delivering the lines with intimacy and passion. You could literally have heard a pin drop, or the hairs on the back of my neck standing up. Stunning.

Wow! From the outset of the gig to the passionate encore, this was a powerful performance.
Nadine's band played with so much tightness and control. Her amazing collaborator Ben Hillier, on drums, is a steadying force to the sometimes exuberant sax playing.
Nadine is getting even better as a live performer, if that were possible. Her vocals are something to cherish, as is between song banter, This covers some heartfelt insight on the latest albums song topics.
Nadine has never shied away from her struggle with in equality, loss and mental health issues and she discusses all with total honesty.
A sixteen song set covering work from all of her three albums, is superbly performed over the course of 90 min's, which seems to fly by!

Catch her if you can, you won't regret it!

I hadn’t been to an all seated gig at The Roundhouse before so I wasn’t sure what to expect.

This is often a good state to be in as the actual event regularly exceeds expectations

I first saw Nadine play on the IArena at the Latitude festival and saw immediately a huge star. Next time it was Glastonbury where I saw more of her passion and energy

Nadine Shah has a wonderful voice and writes strong songs full of passion and challenges. The Roundhouse gig was just superb. Backed by a great band which included Neil McColl who played with Boo Hewerdine in The Bible

Nadine wonderfully engaged with her audience which included a number of her family.

If you haven’t seen Nadine perform then don’t miss out, brilliant just brilliant

Saw Nadine at a Palestine benefit gig in The Social London. She sang about 6 songs and all of them were excellent performances - she sounded perfect and it was amazing to be able to stand just 4 feet in front of her at this show.
I'm a huge fan of all her records and this was my first live gig and it did not disappoint.
This is a tiny basement bar and so this was really an intimate gig and she was only accompanied by two of her band mates. The sound was excellent and I couldn't spot any missing instruments (listening to her recording afterwards, I can only spot saxophones)

Amazing, haunting, hairs on back of the neck stand-uping! An intimate treat in a beautiful venue. And her parents were there. New tracks off Fast Food were fantastic. As always, an assured stage presence, now matched by the lambast of the new 'bigger songs' like Fool. Can't wait for the new album which she said is drawing on the current political landscape (migrants).

My friends, my daughter and I all had a fantastic time at this gig. Nadine has a wonderful voice and amazing stage presence. She writes and performs songs about mental illness and the rise of racism in this country, amongst others.

Definitely not to be missed. Five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I was really looking forward to how Nadine’s songs were performed live. I was not disappointed. Nadine’s passionate singing, complemented with a group of very good musicians, was just amazing. I drove home afterwards well pumped up!!!

Gig was cancelled at short notice. Hopefully a new show will be rescheduled. I would really like to see Nadine Shah in concert. It would be an interesting venue as well.