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NME Awards Tour, 02 Academy, Glasgow

With remarkable timing, Azealia Banks secured the top placing in last year's NME Cool List shortly before being named the opening act on the magazine's annual tour.

Extraordinary coincidences aside, not all her material resonated particularly well in the Academy's setting. Still, she has lively stage presence and there were moments where the New Yorker's spitting vocal was stirring, including a finale that dropped in the Prodigy's Firestarter.