{"id":19996,"date":"2016-05-04T12:03:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T11:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=19996"},"modified":"2016-05-04T12:03:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T11:03:50","slug":"kip-moore-at-koko-london-27th-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/05\/kip-moore-at-koko-london-27th-april-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Kip Moore at KOKO, London, 27th April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kip Moore: Photo Credit Steve Holley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kip Moore lit up KOKO\u00a0last week with his own brand of Country music that had the capacity crowd whooping with delight and punching the air from the moment he stepped on stage.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Kip Moore: Photo Credit Steve Holley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hailing from Georgia, USA and with two hit albums to his name, Kip Moore was in the UK promoting ‘Wild Ones’, his second album released back in August 2015. During a near two hour set, Kip Moore showed why he has taken Country music by storm and even motivated a marriage proposal from the crowd. His first album, ‘Up All Night’, released in April 2012, was the best selling debut album by a country male, whilst his follow up is stacking up sales and cementing his position as a country singer of some note.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kip Moore: Photo Credit Steve Holley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Born in Tifton Georgia, Kip began playing guitar at College in Alabama before moving to Hawaii and enjoying the surfing backpacking lifestyle there. In 2004 he moved to Nashville where songwriter and producer Brett James took him under his wing and helped him to sign a publishing deal. It is this varied upbringing which helps Kip\u2019s music to have such variety within its genre and feel like it has so many influences as well as country. In October 2011, ‘Something About a Truck’ hit number one on the Billboard Country chart, and Kip seemed to be on his way. However, despite a hit debut album, follow up singles from a proposed second album were disappointing with ‘Young Love’ and the excellent, ‘Dirt Road’ not making the impression Kip had hoped for. He went back to the drawing board, or songwriting board, and came back stronger with August 2015 release ‘Wild Ones’. Kip\u2019s music tells the stories of life and it is this determination which typifies his song writing and makes it so resonant with the audience. It\u2019s the stories of his life, but also the stories of other people\u2019s lives too.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kip Moore: Photo Credit Steve Holley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At KOKO, Kip sang songs from both albums and even threw in a new song and a couple of covers. Interestingly he seemed to move away from the set list taped to the sound deck when he changed the acoustic part of the evening, a part where Kip\u2019s excellent voice really shone, to include an excellent new song, ‘Guitar Man’, and a cover of Oasis\u2019s, ‘Don\u2019t Look Back in Anger’. During ‘Guitar Man’, a song that reminds us why we love Kip Moore and his wonderful ability to tell a story in a song , Kip broke off playing to tell how a former girlfriend\u00a0<\/span>had told him his music wouldn\u2019t amount to anything and that he would dedicate the last verse to her, \u201cI had me a pretty baby, thought she was the one, but she soon grew tired of this love on the run, she said she felt second, told me I had to choose, she\u2019s back in Georgia and I\u2019m here with you\u201d. KOKO\u00a0roared their approval, Kip flashed a smile and carried on \u201cat the end of the night we\u2019ll all be best friends\u201d and it was a sealed deal, London loves Kip Moore! One lady even screamed a marriage proposal!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kip Moore: Photo Credit Steve Holley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During the first part of the night at KOKO, Kip barely drew breath as he moved from one song to the next, leaping on the amps, gyrating more than most men of country and brandishing his guitar, in the words of Elvis, \u201clike a Tommy gun\u201d and generally whipping the capacity crowd into a state of excitement that never really stopped till the end of the night. This is not to detract from how good Kip Moore is live, the frenetic pace doesn\u2019t mean any dip in quality. Throughout the evening he was note perfect and the cheers from everywhere never stopped from men and women, young and old alike.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kip Moore: Photo Credit Steve Holley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kip Moore is an incredibly talented singer song writer and at the moment Country fans are lucky to be in a run of visits from some great stars. Brantley Gilbert plays Shepherds Bush at the weekend and Thomas Rhett will visit that same venue in November. But, KOKO\u00a0is a venue that is made for Country music as the fans are wrapped around the stage and then tier up at the back so there is real energy. Kip Moore was obviously fired up by the raw emotion of the crowd and delivered a performance of incredible quality right up to the wonderful finale of ‘Faith When I Fall’ which sampled Tom Petty\u2019s ‘Free Falling’, and gave the audience another chance to sing back at their hero. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Kip Moore: Photo Credit Steve Holley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To say thank you Kip said he would hang around and sign autographs until everyone who wanted one was happy. He was so popular he may have still been signing into the early hours. Kip Moore sings \u201cthe fruits of my labours when the crowd sings along\u201d and if this is truly how he feels, and I think it is from his charming stage presence, he would have gone home a happy man and convinced that in the UK he is truly loved by the country music faithful. Come back soon Kip!<\/span><\/p>\n

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