There are some venues that do half the work for you. St Pancras Old Church, with beautiful acoustics and ancient hush, was the perfect setting for Hitchin’s Danny Addison to launch his debut album ‘Porcelain’. It’s a space where whispers carry, where every sound seems amplified, and Addison used that to full effect.
Opening with the fragile tones of the title track, ‘Porcelain’, he drew the room into silence, his voice a thread that grew stronger with each note. By the time ‘Tribe’ arrived, the church had been transformed into something bigger: as the bass rumbling through the pews, drums echoing off the stone walls, and a beautiful choir line swelling in the background, filling the space with light.
The set felt like a journey through the album’s contrasts. ‘Sense of Touch’ glowed with delicate warmth, the twin violins cradling Addison’s vocal in a cocoon of sound. ‘Lady’ flickered like a candle in a dark room, intimate and fragile, while “Beck and Call” proved the night’s most intricate feat, sounding vast and cinematic, yet never losing its precision.
What’s striking about Addison live is his ability to make fragility sound powerful. The songs are felt, pulled from silence and built into something extraordinary. In the hushed awe of St Pancras, ‘Porcelain’ was a statement of arrival.
