LIVE REVIEW – ANNA B SAVAGE: MANCHESTER NIGHT AND DAY – 13/02/2025

Sixteen years ago, Anna B Savage played her second ever gig in a former band at The Night and Day.  “I was stood in the same spot, shitting myself. Nothing has changed.” she jokes. However, much is different. Tonight is sold out, reward for a voice of cherry blossom-like gorgeousness and bracingly autobiographical lyrics. It […]
On her previous album, ‘in/FLUX’, Anna B Savage cut a bracingly solitary figure. The title track saw her proclaiming with a Garbo-esque flourish, “I want to be alone / I’m happy on my own” while even the more soothing closing song, ‘The Orange’ had her maintaining in measured tones, “don’t want kids or a partner […]

ALBUM REVIEW – ANNA B SAVAGE: YOU & I ARE EARTH

Anna B Savage

LIVE: ANNA B SAVAGE – 22/03/2023

– Yes Pink Room, Manchester – To describe this Anna B Savage show as eagerly awaited would be a major understatement. The searing intensity of her first album, ‘A Common Turn’, became one of my soundtracks to 2021’s winter lockdown while her more nuanced follow-up, ‘in/FLUX,’ has already established itself as a leading contender for […]
Confessional singer-songwriters face a quandary of how much to reveal, whether to go down the misery memoir route or strive too hard to convey a positive message. With ‘in/FLUX’, Anna B Savage gives herself an examination that sounds like the best ever episode of the old Radio 4 series ‘In the Psychiatrist’s Chair’ while accepts […]

ALBUM REVIEW – ANNA B SAVAGE: IN/FLUX

LIVE: STELLA DONNELLY / ANNA B SAVAGE – 06/11/2018

-SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER- The Soup Kitchen’s minimal décor is mirrored on stage. Only a guitar, an amp and a mirror sit waiting as the crowd enters for tonight’s show. Anna B Savage is on first, going straight into the set. Her sonorous vocals remind me of Jacob Collier, without the electronic harmoniser, each syllable hitting […]