Live Review: Tkay Maidza, Sable

Sable opened the show and pumped up the crowd with his electrifying beats and drops, really proving himself to be the perfect support. He got the crowd raving and ready for a huge night, which was a real achievement as it was still early on in the evening when his set began.

The Metro Theatre filled up and the mosh became sticky and sweaty when Tkay Maidza took to the stage with her stunning presence, the whole room instantly gravitating to her track Always Been - one of the standouts from her newly released debut TKAY. She waltzed around the stage in an eye catching sequinned outfit that sizzled with her every move. As she transitioned into Do It Right the additional drums in her stage set-up shone, giving the song a whole new level of energy.

She extended the vocal part in this track, as well as in others, mixing up the feel of the tunes and keeping the crowd on their toes. One of her earlier tunes, Uh Huh really got the crowd hyped up and dancing! Unfortunately the sound levelling here, and in general, was a little disappointing. Her rapping often got lost in the electronics, which was especially noticeable for punters standing towards the back of the venue.

Afterglow from the new album seemed to groove with deeper frequencies then her usual MO, digging into really old school hip hop. The main vocal hook is crazy catchy, humming with velvety rhymes. The show vibed like a dance party, possibly because her vocal levels were really soft, which just made the drops and electronic frequencies starker — something Maidza made work in her favour.

For M.O.B. the crowd rapped along, spitting out the last word of each sentence and then chanting "money over bitches". Maidza returned the energy firing off of the walls as she spiralled off into her own intense dance sequence and bounced from the corners of the stage. She then played her track Tennies - also off of the new album. Here the momentum built even further with strobe lighting and deep vibrations. Ghost and Switch Lanes got the loudest applause and the most frenzied moves out of the crowd before Maidza ended with the lead single from the album, Simulation. Despite dropping only weeks ago, Maidza's fans have TKAY down word for word.