TUNE-YARDS (London Royal Festival Hall, 22/11/25)

Turns out all you need to have several hundred concertgoers eating out your hand is a ukulele, two drums, a loop pedal, an incredible voice, sixteen years of exuberant, rhythmically hypnotic songs and a bass-playing husband. A decade ago I said I'd much rather watch Merrill than any number of hype bands of the moment and that remains as true now as it ever was.