{"id":1186,"date":"2008-06-06T10:48:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T09:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2015-03-22T14:24:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T14:24:37","slug":"duffy-offers-a-slow-burn-in-shepherds-bush-empire-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1186","title":{"rendered":"MUSIC REVIEW: Duffy at the Shepherds Bush Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/duffy-x325.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5678\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/duffy-x325.jpg\" alt=\"duffy x325\" width=\"325\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/duffy-x325.jpg 325w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/duffy-x325-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a>By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n<p>LONDON &#8212; Aimee Anne Duffy, who goes by just her last name, showed why she&#8217;s the latest hot young British singer-songwriter with a chance to build a lasting career with a sold-out first gig Wednesday at the iconic Shepherds Bush Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Petite but with a powerful voice that she knows how to control, Duffy sang most of the songs from her debut album &#8220;Rockferry,&#8221; which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard chart when it was released in the United States last month.<\/p>\n<p>If the 70-odd-minute set, covering 15 numbers, did not set the place on fire, it was a rock solid performance that left the impression her best is still to come. Pacing had something to do with it since the singer was content to propel a slow burn rather than offer a musical explosion.<\/p>\n<p>A longer version of this review appeared in The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ray Bennett LONDON &#8212; Aimee Anne Duffy, who goes by just her last name, showed why she&#8217;s the latest hot young British singer-songwriter with a chance to build a lasting career with a sold-out first gig Wednesday at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1186\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[529,1033,1083],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-reviews","tag-duffy","tag-rockferry","tag-shepherds-bush-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5681,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/5681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}