It's very difficult for me to be sincere
April already - and only my second gig of the year! Every week, I make an effort to at least partially listen to all the new entries in the album chart. This generally plays a strong role in reinforcing my musical stereotypes, but every so often someone unknown surprises me by producing something I actually quite like - which I almost always then immediately forget about. However, Orla Gartland has managed it twice in the past four years so I at least remember her name - and so when came she up on the list of work freebies playing close to home at the Kentish Town Forum, I thought I'd pop along to see how her music translated into a live performance. And so I rocked up on a lovely sunny evening at what I thought was quite an early arrival to find the standing area already full, the seated area pretty busy and the first support act already on stage - and making some most peculiar noises. TWST (not her real name, apparently) does kinda shrieky singing over dancey backing tracks - i...