Hailed in the Norfolk and Norwich Festival programme as 'the next Amy Winehouse' and with her work sampled by Jay-Z, Hannah Williams arrived with a weight of expectation.
Together with backing band The Affirmations she certainly delivered a technically impressive performance: Williams has a powerful voice, and solid song-writing ability.
With a Saturday night crowd wanting to dance, this could have been an explosive gig - but it never quite popped. A few feedback shrieks aside the music was album-perfect, when it needed an edge to really set it alight.
While no-one would want Williams to ape Winehouse's personal bad habits, true divas have risk in their hearts and that frisson feeds in: surprising covers, the band breaking out and racing up tempo, that feeling that no one will ever see this again.
This was accomplished, skilled musicianship; let loose it could be transcendent.
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