Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Camilla Sky at the Baltic Triangle’s 92 Degrees. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Above us there is only sky, if the songwriter is to be believed, and yet down to Earth Sky exists in harmony with her surroundings, the gentleness of a voice that is not afraid to conquer, to soar and float as if possessed by a butterfly caught on the breath of the wind but who can control the path of a hurricane, a Sky that can illuminate their surroundings must be praised for the beauty it reveals.

Camilla Sky is that reveal, a voice that carries the strength of an army into battle against the forces of the night, but one in which you cannot but help reconcile with that of the angelic, of the kind and forceful pure at heart, and one that introduced itself as the opening performer inside 92 Degrees on the final day of March with the glad tidings of sunshine streaming through the windows and catching the eyes as if they were blinded by the series of visions to come.

The gentle refrain delivered by the force of nature might seem to dwell in the land of the dichotomy, the puzzle box that insists on showing you the answer in a roundabout fashion, and yet as the early afternoon sunshine took hold, as the glee and honour of Threshold returned to the city’s Baltic Triangle, that contrast of power and ease opened up like the red flowering Molte; above us only sky, on stage a sense of the serene that sky can bring forth.

Across songs such as Let Us Part, Separate Kingdoms, Undertow, Flow, the excellent Love Me and final song of the set, the as yet undecided song name going by the immediate title of Out Of Here, Camilla Sky verbally danced with the hearts of those in attendance at the start of the Saturday’s events of Threshold; a dance that swayed as if caught by the same hurricane to which the butterfly serenades.

Above us only sky, and yet down here on Earth, the entrancing voice of the heavens rang out and created an atmosphere that radiated throughout the entire day.

Ian D. Hall