About three songs in, Marika Hackman told Hackney’s St John Church that she is here for two purposes: to make the audience dance, and to make them feel miserable.
So true to form, the London-based artist’s set began with her latest album’s lead single No Caffeine, a song where she describes feeling suffocated by endless expectations and pieces of advice. It was followed up in rapid succession by the contrasting 2019 gem I’m Not Where You Are, a spiky, danceable rock song that deals in the currency of emotional unavailability.
