Griff

Brit award winning Sarah Faith Griffiths AKA Griff is one of the leading lights in the world of female singer song writers currently enjoying much-deserved time in the spotlight of modern pop music.

A sure sign of her huge talent and growing audience is the fact this was the first date of the European Leg of a World Tour on the back of another headline tour earlier this year and not forgetting supporting the likes of Taylor Swift on the Era’s Tour and Sabrina Carpenter in between.

This current tour is on the back of the release her Top 3 charting debut album “Vertigo” this summer, although as many fans will know this was preceded by some equally impressive EP’s. So, to tonight’s performance at the O2 Academy in Glasgow. I was at the smaller capacity, Barrowlands Ballroom, also Glasgow in March to see Griff on that first tour and that was a great night but she seems to have grown in both stature and confidence since then.

Here is an artist on top of her game, capturing the audience from the first with the very familiar “Vertigo” as we all obviously joined in with the chorus all the way through to the double encore of the gorgeous, emotionally charged ballad that is “Astronaut” and the exhilarating “Tears for Fun”. In between we had the full range of Griff’s genius from soaring vocals to amazing keyboard and guitar, is there nothing this young lady can’t do? She even designs and makes her own wardrobe too! Some personal highlights were the obvious crowd favourites “Miss Me Too” "LastNightsMascara"and “Black Hole” which had the whole place jumping.

Just over half way through we had the Griff in the crowd moment, three songs with just an acoustic guitar, sang standing shoulder to shoulder with the audience right in the middle of the floor, including a cover of Sabrina Carpenters “Taste”, a nod and a thank you for her recent support. So, after the full set of twenty songs, which seemed to fly by, always a good sign, the evening concluded and a very happy and satisfied audience filed out into the chilly Glasgow night, and given Griff’s trajectory I’m sure I was not alone in thinking her (hopefully) next visit to the city she will have to upgrade to a larger venue again!