Raye
3Arena, Dublin
★★★★★
There are times during Raye’s This Tour May Contain New Music show when you wonder how she is pulling this off.
It’s not just the genre-hopping from jazzy R&B to full-blown torch songs to dance-pop. It’s not just the fact she sells out arenas with what is, for much of the running time, a big-band set so mid-century she can slide in a cover of Fly Me to the Moon without it jarring. It’s not just that she speaks with such raw purpose and rallying spirit about her experience of sexual assault – while introducing survivorship ballad Ice Cream Man – and you know she does this every night.
It’s also her capacity to “go deep”, as she puts…