Yungblud
(Picture: PA)Making his Royal Albert Hall debut, flamboyant emo-rocker Yungblud headlined the third in this week’s ongoing series of Teenage Cancer Trust benefit concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. Dressed in an unusually sober suit jacket and matching shorts, the 24-year-old Doncaster native drew a rowdy young crowd whose sing-along vocals almost drowned out his own. The androgynous singer is known as plain old Dominic Harrison to his family, many of whom were in attendance at this show. “I put a suit on because my mum’s here,” he grinned.
Opening for Yungblud were Nova Twins, aka London duo Amy Love and Georgia South, who are finally earning rightful respect as one of Britain’s most exciting new bands after being grounded by the pandemic for much of the last two years. Joined by a live drummer, their set was brief but thrillingly gnarly, with brutalist funk-rock tracks such as Cleopatra and Undertakerchurning up a thunderously kinetic maelstrom of noise-pop, grime, dub, thrash metal, spiky political rage and feminist sass. Even in this compact format, these young women sounded like major stars in waiting.
