Following their gig being cancelled last year, First Aid Kit have finally made it to Liverpool to deliver a show well worth waiting for.
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Starting the evening off, The Last Dinner Party took to the stage at eight. The room was already filling up at this point and if anyone wasn’t a fan of the band they would’ve been converted by the end of the seven song set. After catching them supporting Lana Del Rey last month, I knew I had to get there early and see them again. With six band members on what is a quite a small stage they manage to make the set feel even more intimate than it already was.
With them only having two singles released, they play songs that most in the room wouldn’t have heard. Finishing on their hit ‘Nothing Matters’ the band left no one disappointed and yet again left me feeling like they won’t be support acts for much longer.
First Aid Kit kick their set off, and the venue seems oversold and ridiculously hot. The crowd is tightly packed in but that didn’t stop anyone from enjoying the performance. Opening with ‘Angel’ off their latest album Palomino, the band take tracks from every album giving everyone the songs they want.
Songs off the recently released Palomino Deluxe edition appear early on and are well received by the crowd as well as a number of songs off The Lion’s Roar. Midway through the set, sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg take to the centre of the stage together for a moving version of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Songbird’ where there was not a sound in the room, before ‘Ghost Town’ was performed in a similar manner.
Taking it back to more upbeat folk, they blast through ‘King of the World’ before a cover of ‘On The Road Again’. Country ballad ‘Emmylou’ is met with huge applause before the main set closes with ‘Fireworks’
Coming back for the encore there’s an outfit change and little time wasted with them going straight into the biggest hit off Palomino ‘Out of my Head’. The title track of the new album follows with them finishing the night with ‘My Silver Lining’.
After last years cancellation, fans had waited a long time to see First Aid Kit in Liverpool but their patience was repaid with a near perfect performance. With harmonies most can only dream of hitting and the near effortless manner they hit them in, the Söderberg sisters showed yet again why with every release and with every show their name continues to grow.
