Maisie Peters used to daydream about a then-distant music career when travelling by train from Brighton to London. “I’d be crossing the Thames thinking, ‘Wow, I hope the songs I write will help me play here,” she told fans at the Hammersmith Apollo last night.
The gig, which sold out in less than an hour, marked the 22-year-old’s biggest headline show to date. That’s arguably no mean feat for a singer-songwriter with two EPs, a handful of singles, and one album to her name (her 2021 debut, You Signed Up for This, reached number two in the UK albums chart). But Peters was ready for it. Over the last year, the West Sussex artist has grown accustomed to performing to huge crowds. Ed Sheeran, who signed Peters to his Gingerbread Records imprint, invited her to support him on his 2022 stadium tour, as well as recent dates in the US and beyond.
