Singing Around a Campfire Sharing Memories and Drunk Kisses - Angus and Julia Stone Live Review

Well, it's safe to say they were amazing. Though, truthfully, I didn't expect anything else considering half of their releases are live recordings and they're predominantly an accoustic duo band. I have a feeling that I experienced what death will feel like at this show. If you don't know Angus and Julia Stone, they are a brother and sister duo from Australia who are known for their beautiful harmonising and acoustic tunes. I urge you to listen to Santa Monica Dream and shut your eyes, imagine you are in a garden with fairy lights and a little fire and all you feel is warmth. I would like to presume that that's what the end of life feels like.

This visual is precisely what they want to achive. Not death - but the garden, fairylights, fire, love thing. Their stage set up is a large carpet, their strings dude sitting crossed legged, with paper fairy lights hanging above their heads and changing colour through every song. One look at their music videos and you'd also see this. I'd love to add that this band single fucking handedly wrote the ENTIRE soundtrack to the Life Is Strange: True Colours game (and played Love Song from it, which made me scream as they spoke about LIS, aka my favourite ever game). Not just that, but they got approached to do it - again, if you know the LIS: TC game, you'll know the exact vibes they have and how PERFECTLY they achieve it.

In true Aussie fashion, Angus was full of deadpan, witty jokes that came to him with ease, and Julia was full of so much love that I was sure she was going to explode from it. What I didn't expect, and loved, was that these two love each other so much, and that was so clear to the audience, as well as communicated. Angus said, 'I am so lucky to walk the earth by this magical creature. I love the way that she sees the world.' And if that doesn't express the warmth in the air at this concert, I don't know what will.

Julia is known for incredibly unique voice. I knew that these two would have no trouble in singing live, or any worries that they wouldn't be as good as they are when played on Spotify. But really, live, these two are rather haunting, in the most beautiful way possible. With beautiful stories leading up to each song and how it came to be, these siblings may as well be flowers growing out of the ground together.

Before I even say it, yes, I still hold a grudge to The Killers for their god awful set list. Thank the heavens above that do or don't exist for this absolutely beautiful set list. They played songs from every single album as well as a cover AND their biggest hits. This, Mr Flowers, is how to structure a set list, thank you.

So, if it isn't clear, Angus and Julia Stone are an absolute must see live. I usually don't see bands several times (twenty one pilots don't count okay), but I, hand on my heart, would see this beautiful duo again and again and again a million times. Somehow managing to make you feel like a show in THE Royal Albert Hall was intimate, sharing their stories and songs amongst the closest of friends, the night was beautiful and these two are increidble.