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Born and raised close to
Dublin, the 24 year old has spent the last two year cutting her
musical teeth in Germany where she averages audiences in excess of
650 people.
She is clearly, LOUDLY ‘Orish!’
and proud of the fact. Everything blamed on the land of her fathers
including her claimed love of getting ‘bladdered’ “any of you guys
want to show me where the best place to get a drink in Bristol is”.
She has a line in unpolished
infectious banter, which warms you to her in an instant.
She also has gob to die for.
Lost somewhere between, the likes of Amy McDonald, KT Tunstall and
maybe even the peppering of Bonnie Tyler (remember her), at points
she was in danger of screaming her spleen out.
And she trashes her guitars
as if they had in some way offended her. Amazingly, Wallis had all
five of her fingers on her left hand cut clean off by a lawn
mower….and she is left handed. They must have done the most amazing
job of sowing her digits back on. Even so, you can see visually that
she has remarkable playing style.
Her self penned songs are
catchy and memorable. If you go to her official website she plays
quite a few of the tracks from her latest album called ‘Spoons’ on
there.
It has to be said that your
average support act at the Colston Hall experience a thankless time
as you don’t normally get the crowd out of the bar until the main
act comes on. All I can say is, if that was the case for you last
night, boy did you miss a treat.
Wallis left the stage to
rapturous applause and clearly must have made a mark in journal as
to Bristol being ‘a great place to play
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