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Sometimes it’s hard to decide...what was the best part of a gig? Thinking on Remi Wolf's Friday night (12 November) show at Oval Space as part of London's Pitchfork Festival, I'm still pondering. Was it the onstage forward rolls or the bit where about a thousand people were breathing in and out in unison? It will have to be a tie for now. 

Remi Wolf is getting to the point where she doesn't need an introduction. The pop star bounces on-stage like a whirlwind and has everyone in the crowd captivated in a heartbeat. She may be small in stature, but from the moment she enters the room it is glaringly obvious that the room is hers to rule. Like a neon-tinted disco ball she spins round and around, and all we can do is join her for the ride.

East London’s Oval Space is at full capacity for the last act of the evening’s Pitchfork Music Festival London instalment. We are only a few minutes into the first song of the show when Remi points her mic at the crowd in an invitation for us all to join in and—without any warmup needed whatsoever—every single person present does so without any hesitation. 

It is rare for someone with only one album to be able to deliver wall-to-wall hits, but that is what this show is. Remi is as instantaneously likable as her genre-glitching and somewhat chaotic pop songs are instantaneously catchy.

Towards the latter stages of the show Remi Wolf takes a break from her throne at the centre of the stage and hands the mic over to the drummer who announces that “this is the part of the show where Remi plays the drums”. As if being masterfully entertaining and charmingly charismatic—while at the same time delivering flawless vocals—wasn’t enough, she plays the drums for a bit before returning to deliver the last couple of songs of the night.

The show culminates when Remi does forward rolls on stage in the middle of ‘Photo ID’, just after she’s had the entire room be quiet so that we could participate in some kind of meditative breathing exercise. It may sound like a cliché, but some people appear to be born performers—and Remi Wolf if without doubt one of them.

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