Satin bomber jacket slipping from her shoulders, Biig Piig is going all out – she’s shimmying left, shimmying right, flipping her hair, pogoing at the mic stand. Opening track 4AM, with its muted, just-left-the-club vibe, doesn’t really call for such a full-throttle show, but the Irish alt-pop musician – AKA Jessica Smyth – is selling it as a floor-filler. “I know you don’t want to be alone,” she croons, her voice featherlight, pumping a fist in the air.
It is a night of mixed messages. Biig Piig’s headline tour is in celebration of her long-awaited debut album 11:11, but only a handful of those songs are scattered through a setlist that spans three EPs, a mixtape, and assorted other singles, and it severs the narrative thread connecting them.
