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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
Lisa Wright

Father John Misty at the Royal Albert Hall review: was this a career peak performance?

Father John Misty is touring his sixth album Mahashmashana - (Alex Cropper)

The hallowed walls of London’s Royal Albert Hall have recently played host to guests from the Sex Pistols to Wet Leg, but perhaps there’s no modern day musician who feels quite as perfect a fit for the grand and storied building as Josh Tillman.

Where the RAH’s stage has formerly been graced by Hollywood royalty and music’s diverse greats; academics and, for a lengthy stint, the Miss World pageant, Tillman has used his solo catalogue as Father John Misty to somehow encapsulate a flavour of and a commentary on all of the above and more.

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