The pains of being a famous beauty with a superstar boyfriend and a glamorous Hollywood lifestyle may be unlikely lyrical themes for winning audience empathy, but Suki Waterhouse somehow managed to make these First World Problems sound compelling at the first of two back-to-back shows in the intimate theatre space of Omeara.
Backed by an all-female band, the 30-year-old model, actor and singer-songwriter earned a rapturous reception at this rare hometown show, and not just because most of her family were in the audience. Cooing languid lullabies and sultry torch songs in a breathy mid-Atlantic twang, she came over very much like Chiswick’s answer to Lana Del Rey at times.
