17/10/2022
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Music Team Member Tom Porteous, went to the group ‘Jockstrap’ play at …
Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye gave an intimate, mesmerising, and mystical performance at the tucked away venue in The Fine City.
Ellery and Skye are both graduates of London’s prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama and have made a career of tearing down their academy walls.
The duo stopped in Norwich during their UK tour after the release of their critically acclaimed debut album I Love You Jennifer B.
The Norwich Arts Centre was the perfect venue for the twosome with Skye on production and keyboard and Ellery on vocals, violin, and guitar. It's a sold-out Friday night show, and anticipation is high as the curiously energetic support act, Babymorocco, gets the party started.
At 9pm, Jockstrap strolled onto the stage, the lights hum a blood red and the droning beats of the title track Jennifer B start to play with dry ice from the smoke machine creeping up the pillars of the old church venue.
Anticipation from the audience as they creep forward and wait for Ellery to grasp the mic. Once she starts singing, it becomes clear that Ellery’s vocals are a thing of haunting beauty as she gracefully moves around the stage giving the perfect aura to the performance.
For most of the set, Skye remains boxed in by his production equipment - I was in particularly glad that they did not sorely focus on their new album and performed some of their older songs including some songs from their earlier EPs Love is the Key to the City and City Hell which have some of the stranger but some of my favourite tracks from the duo included.
A highlight of the gig was when they ended on the club banger - ‘50/50’ which sent the NAC crowd bouncing.
After it finished the duo left the stage which leaves the crowd chanting “one more song!” And so, Jockstrap return for just that as the chords start playing for the very sexy Taylor Skye remix of, I Want Another Affair as the crowd cheers and reignites frenzy of bounces. Leaving the venue, I hear everyone’s great words about the performance with one audience member saying “that was the best £12 I have ever spent.” �
Overall, Jockstrap did not disappoint their live performance had creativity, talent and a sound that even people that have never even heard of the duo can appreciate.
Georgia Ellery’s presence on stage was amazing as she radiated early Jim Morrison energy. They are clearly going to be a force to be reckoned with over the next few years with them doing it like no one else, I am very much looking forward to what they bring next!
📸: Thomas Porteous
