LIVE: Flo Morrissey @ Liverpool Sound City

Flo Morrissey stares doe-eyed down the barrel of a Sound City Saturday afternoon crowd, her petite frame looking ever more wispy under the weight of an acoustic guitar. For most 19-year-olds or folk musicians for that matter, the concept of playing your gently crafted tunes in a shaky tent down at the docks, where your delicate songs will be going head to head with the sound of a metal band and the funfair both far too close for comfort, would be really rather daunting.

Apparently not for Flo Morrissey, who gave a completely unfazed performance, despite competing with the Waltzers for aural attention.

The ethereal teen makes kind of melancholic fairy-tales. Schooled in guitar and piano, in a stripped back fashion she creates music as expansive as the rolling hills of Wuthering Heights. Her voice sounds like someone harnessed Kate Bush and gave her the depth of Stevie Nicks, it is simply stunning. The control she exercises while running through her range is expert beyond her years.

Although lyrically she can often fall victim to sounding a little GCSE English (it’s a bit soon to be talking about changing from when you were young, unless she’s referring to her toddler years), Morrissey’s songs have a lip-quivering vulnerability, particularly regarding broken hearts. Pages of Gold and If You Can’t Love This All Goes Away are utterly beautiful, tender songs that captivated the audience in wide-eyed wonder.

She ended on a cover of Irish Heart, English Blood by her name-sake Morrissey. An obscure choice, Flo Morrissey gave it a kind of female Billy Bragg rebellious edge. A really great cover, it showed hints of the bitter and cocky in her voice that went previously undisplayed. I hope she does more with this soon as it could make for some interesting contrast.

A top girl that’s cool under pressure.

Kate Tittley
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Kate Tittley

When not making cocktails for Manchester's finest, Le Titts is most likely to be found the other side of the bar in a cloud of smoke and wine musing loudly over her fantasy band line up, love of the album format and why nothing is better than The Stone Roses. And then spilling the wine...Loving the ride with GigSlutz.