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Mic-swinging, ass-shaking, water bottle-spraying, high-kicking, cart-wheeling – you name it, Remi did it. Six months after her headline show at the considerably smaller MOTH Club in Hackney, Remi Wolf returned to London on Tuesday night for a sold-out show in Camden’s KOKO, with the venue upsize testifying to the crazy, rapid rise of the Californian singer-songwriter-powerhouse. 

The evening is opened by indie-pop newcomer Rachel Chinouriri, performing the upbeat ‘All I Ever Asked’ and the heartfelt tear-jerker ‘So My Darling’. Her set serves as a sweet calm before the Remi storm.

Without time to waste, the storm comes in thick and fast as Remi bursts onto stage with the colourful belter ‘Liquor Store’ and then straight into ‘Anthony Kiedis’. She pauses after these two songs to ask for a chair on stage, letting the audience know she has a sprained ankle. Being the wild performer that she is that chair is immediately neglected for the rest of the set as the singer continues with the on-stage acrobatics and theatrics. 

As she continues reeling off bangers from her breakthrough album Juno, Remi keeps her merry crowd of Remjobs in a state somewhere continually drifting between awe and confusion. Whether that’s prompted by the bad-bitch burlesque intro to ‘Sexy Villian’ or the extended baby voice outro to ‘Quiet on Set’, or maybe when she swaps places with her drummer/bestie Conor, giving him the mic to recite mantras with the audience with a highlight being: "My new glasses are actually cool". They are actually cool, to be fair. 

Either way, this pendulum between awe and confusion is definitely part and parcel of the Remi charm. She thrives off the whackiness of it all. 

Her whirlwind success comes as no shock as the singer really has it all: buckets of personality, style, energy, a discography of banger after banger… oh, and an incredible voice. This voice takes centre stage as she performs a mash-up cover of Gnarls Barkley’s ‘Crazy’ with MGMT’s ‘Electric Feel’, with everyone instantly swaying along.

The vibrant set draws to an end as Remi signs off with infectious bops ‘Woo!’ and ‘Photo ID’ off her earlier EP I’m Allergic To Dogs, met with a sea of filming iPhones and boogying bodies. With a crowd hungry for more, KOKO vibrates with foot-stomps and chants for “one more song”. Remi obliges and sings a final encore of ‘Disco Man’, illuminated by the venue’s gigantic disco ball – a cinematic closure to a night of much-expected Remi Wolf whackiness and whimsy. The London Remjobs are already eagerly waiting in anticipation for her return. 

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