Last night I made my way to the Hammersmith Apollo to see Klara and Johanna Soderberg, the two sisters who make up First Aid Kit. The venue was sold out, packed to it's capacity of over 8,000, more than can be fitted into the Royal Albert Hall. That's why the girls told us this was their biggest gig to date. There was a huge cross section of ages in the audience from teenagers through twenty and thirty somethings to middle aged. I must have been one of oldest there (again).
I cannot remember when I first heard about them, but I have only had their three albums for a few months. They play a kind of folk come country rock that is my favourite kind of music these days. The sisters could not be more different, the elder tall, willowy, blonde and hippieish, the younger dark, smaller and more serious. It was quite strange to hear the normal interaction with the audience coming from a double act. They were accompanied by drums, percussion and pedal guitar and what a show they gave us. They are an excellent live band.
Most of the songs were from their latest album "Stay Gold" but there were also half a dozen from "The Lion's Roar". And from their first album came a duet without microphones. Ghost Town was sung beautifully and we all joined in.
The light show was quite something, but they are these days. Just to finish, two photos that were not mine.
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