Bursting onto the scene in the early 2000s with his first and poppiest album, few would have imagined that 19-year-old Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini would go on to become the effortlessly cool indie-rock powerhouse he is today. It's fair to say he's come a long way from his New Shoes days but now, at 37, Paolo Nutini has absolutely honed his craft - and luckily for long-serving fans (unlike some artists with careers spanning almost two-decades) appears just as happy playing the crowd-pleasing tracks that made his name, something the Eden Sessions crowd delighted in during the star's Wednesday night (June 19) performance. Taking to the Eden Sessions stage for the fourth time, Nutini peppered his set with sing-along classics, while playing a handful of edgy beats from his 2022 album, Last Night In The Bittersweet, a genre-defying epic that spans classic rock, post-punk and the experimental German rock of kosmische music.
Opening with Afterneath from the aforementioned album, which actually features a writing credit to filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, thanks to its seductive sampled discourse from 1993 movie True Romance, allowed Nutini and the band to ease into the set, teasing unparalleled vocals with hauntingly beautiful howls, which took me back to watching The Who at Eden last summer. Of course, Nutini is no stranger to weaving the spoken word throughout his music for dramatic effect, with Iron Sky, one of his most powerful hits, famously featuring Charlie Chaplin's i.
