MØ, The Cockpit, Leeds

Arriving in Leeds only thirty minutes before they’re due on stage, it would certainly be forgivable, if MØ and her band executed a somewhat languid performance. But, languid it is not. Walking onstage in dramatic fashion, Karen Marie Ørsted enters after her band, rushing to the centre, and carried with a burst of sound that shakes through the amps and onto the Cockpit’s floor. ‘The Sea’ conducts a thunderous charge, with MØ flailing around the stage, with a crowd staggered and intrigued by the Dane’s energy. With ‘Maiden’ and ‘XXX 88’, she possesses an energy that will certainly give headliners AlunaGeorge a run for their money.

‘Waste of Time’ and ‘Pilgrim’ are certain highlights, with MØ rendering herself equal to the powerful and potent music that her excellently tight band play behind her. Both are played triumphantly and showcase the range of her vocal strength, as she flits between tender and melodrama. The sheer adrenaline she manages to conjure overspills into pugnacious at times, but there’s no danger of any antagonism, as MØ is certainly in control of her surroundings.

On closer ‘Glass’ her long ponytail, whips back and forth across the stage, like a lasso, it captures and ensnares her audience into her domain. It’s exceedingly melodramatic but it’s just as sincere as it is loveable, proved by a rapturous applause that the group walk off stage to.