KT glows within the darkness

"Anyone else got a really bad hangover?" KT Tunstall is laid-back and cheeky during her solo show in the gloom of The Arches.

Alone but for her two "Taiwanese friends" (a.k.a drum machine and keyboard), she still manages to belt out a wide range of material from her acoustic beginnings to her newer and more electronic offerings.

It is a raw and makeshift performance but one can't help feeling that this is the environment in which to enjoy KT at her musical best. Laying down beatbox drums and looped harmonies, she launches into her songs with gusto, which guarantees a catchy and punchy edge.

Inbeween singing, KT opens up to the crowd with tales of crazy times and proves to be genuinely funny and incredibly likable as she banters with good-natured hecklers and tells of escapades past in her East Coast drawl.

Be it her story about the time she swallowed a trumpet player before launching in to purse-lipped faux tooting, or an accapella mix of 'Black Horse on a Cherry Tree' and 'Seven Nation Army' by the White Stripes, the crazy KT ensured you were laughing your head off and dancing away the entire time.