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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Mark Beaumont

Róisín Murphy at Royal Albert Hall review: a very creative comeback

“Am I just tripping?” a woman in an Athenian rainbow dress, floor-length dragon scale stole and wobbly velvet dunce hat asked a Royal Albert Hall crowd that included a sparkly emerald raver with a rack of sunglasses for a face and at least one Nosferatu. Well quite.

Roughly 37 costume changes earlier, as she thrust, shimmied and grinded across the stage dressed as a sci-fi druidess with an inflatable alien under one arm, we were convinced we were hallucinating Penny Mordaunt’s 4am antics at the Coronation after-rave.

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