Live Review: Handsome, Tamara Natt, Take Your Time, Kid Heron

The Gasometer Hotel's upstairs room is a cosy area, tucked away from the bustling main bar, that feels like a living room. The disco ball in the centre casts little circles of spinning light on the walls, perfectly setting the tone for an intimate, good-vibes-only show.

Kid Heron (aka Albert Milne) takes the stage solo, armed with only a synth and his beautiful falsetto. Milne's minimalist rap seamlessly blends with his voice over funereal organ before he calls the rest of his band out to the stage. Their second vocalist is just as pitch perfect, and the pair harmonise together over chilled R&B beats played on live drums and percussion, calling to mind Solange's A Seat At The Table. The crowd can't help but focus on Kid Heron's obvious talent and they finish to loud applause.

Between bands, SZA and Kendrick Lamar blast over the PA - a nod to the biggest players in the genre. The second act, Take Your Time, begin their set with catchy, '70s bass grooves over quirky electro beats and husky vocals. They go from bossa nova to Zero 7-style '90s lounge. It's both relaxed and really fun, and there's more than one couple in the audience with arms around waists, swaying in time to the music. They cover Kylie Minogue's Love At First Sight and it goes down very well.

The room goes silent for poet Tamara Natt as she reads us a prayer to modern life, full of powerfully quiet details. It's not often you hear a poem mid-gig and this one blows everyone away.

Surprisingly, vocalist Caitlin Park announces this is Handsome's third show ever before launching into polished indie pop with R&B beats and multi-layered vocals. You'd never know. Park is an experienced performer, both confident and relaxed on stage, smiling and dancing as much as the audience, most of whom know all the words. She delivers Mariah Carey samples, a Dream Wife cover and a shoutout to safe spaces at gigs, which is exactly what the room feels like. She asks the audience to do the silliest dance they can, with an anecdote about how she "used to be scared of dancing in public, before [she] grew up". The theme of the night is self-love, which culminates in their lead single, Save Some Love - a joyous anthem about looking after yourself and one another, which is particularly poignant for queer audience members. In the end, even though we request an encore from Handsome they instead ask that the audience join them for a dance party and this is something we happily agree to.