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Published: 19 November 2009

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• YOU know you’re at a “grown-up” gig when quiches and salads are on offer, alcohol is banned and the audience sits on church pews.
Even so, listening to Andrew Bird fill Islington’s Union Chapel last Tuesday with his signature medley of violin, guitar, singing and whistling was no less exciting.
Having “just stepped off the boat” from America, Bird was not quite with it – he had to start a couple of his songs more than once. But this only created greater intimacy as he laughed off mistakes, his softly spoken interludes greeted with laughter.
Bird’s voice, with its huge vocal range, can at times be haunting and the way he layers his songs to create colossal sounds perfectly suited the atmospheric church.
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the evening was support act Moriarty, a French-American folk roots quintet, who went down a treat.
JOSIE HINTON

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