Jetta at St. Lukes Church, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8/10

In amongst all the Rock that was being played out to those gathered inside St. Luke’s, an amount of grace was needed and who better than Jetta to give the audience a certain amount of elegance and refined style as the steamy day gave way to warm evening appeal.

Even if you weren’t aware of Jetta before she came on stage to perform five numbers before handing over the reins to headline act, Space, by the time she finished it was possible to look round the astonished crowd and see them taping on their mobile devices, almost as if they were spreading the word on how good Jetta’s voice and checking out her musical C.V. for future reference.

Despite the twin dilemmas of St Luke’s being only the second time Jetta had performed in the city and the growing palpable feeling of the star attraction hiding gently in the wings, Jetta performed with great admiration. She certainly captured the imagination of a large section of the crowd as she stormed through tracks such as Operators, Renegades, the brutally good Start A Riot and the calming, restful sophistication of Take It Easy, each song as good as the last, each track a reminder of days gone past in which a woman with a great voice was admired and not fawned over. There are not many voices that make an audience member feel as though they have seen into the eyes of creative beauty; or those that offer a salvation in the heat of desert abyss or the hole in which to hide from the ensuing storm and yet through each song, the storm abated at least for a short while.

Short in size the set may have been but what it lacked in time, time in which to get to understand the vocalist and her band better, it had depth and character in abundance. Jetta is a woman of substance, an artist in which to check out and wallow in the mysticism of her voice. A delightful and intriguing introduction to a singer of whom good things are surely to come.

Ian D. Hall