WHO'S this hip-shaking singer who's strutted onstage, and what's happened to the sensitive soul usually hidden behind an acoustic guitar?
James Morrison opened with a surprising bang, cavorting around the stage to the slick R 'n' B sound of Beautiful Life in a manner a world away from his usual stage presence.
There were, then, two quite different sides to his set. The majority followed a more predictable path, offering up material that aimed to be swoonsome and smooth; but then there were the moments, all lifted from his newest record The Awakening, where he seemed to get fired up by the greats of soul music and infused some much needed urgency into matters.
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