Daði Freyr at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire: A Night Of Tunes and Comedy

Written and Captured By | Morris Shamah

Daði Freyr came in swinging on Thursday night, bringing his blend of humour and pop to the stage at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Daði is promoting his debut album, “I Made An Album” on this tour, which is titled “I’m Doing a Tour.” The stage for this show? A massive blow up ballon version of Daði’s head and hands and some angled LED bars Behind all this humour lies a truly talented multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter, who’s dry and pointed humour serves as a palate cleanser between his unique, inventive take on modern pop music.

Support came from Australian trio Blusher. Dressed in all white like a girl group Charlie’s Angels, the Melbourne trio is made up of Lauren Coutts, Jade Ingvarson-Favretto, and Miranda Ward. The three of them shared stage space and instruments, choreographed dances and vocal leads across their brisk, nine-song, thirty minute set. Songs from Blusher’s debut EP, “Should We Go Dance?” made up the bulk of the set. Opening with Dead End and closing with the anthemic Backbone, Blusher’s smooth new-wave pop, mixed with a cover Kylie Minogue‘s Love At First Sight, made for a joyful set opening, as they put it, for “Daði Freyr’s head.”

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Daði 90-minute set could easily be described as nearly 50% stand up comedy. Daði explained early on that there were music industry executives in the audience, and therefore was told to behave. Not that he did, of course, unless cracking jokes about “cock jokes” instead of making them directly counts as behaving. Pop humour with his own head and hands, an improvised song “This Is The Pussy Show,” riffing on Oli (who went unexplained) and his mom, Daði couldn’t help but joke with the audience between nearly every song.

The songs themselves, however, showed off Daði’s impressive skills as a multi-lingual singer, guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, and synth-lord. His two-piece band provided only percussion and guitar – which is fitting, as Daði records every bit of his music himself – but served well to flesh out the Daði’s electropop sounds. Aside from a single ballad, the surprisingly delicate “Somebody Else Now,” delivered solo on electric guitar, every tune was a bonafide banger.

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For the encore, Daði got in one last joke – starting Blur’s “Song 2” on solo electric guitar as a sincere, slow sing-along – before bringing back his band to bring down the house once again, showing he could do it as well as the Britpop legends.

Photos By | Morris Shamah