The singer played the 9:30 Club on a special day for the venue
Natasha Bedingfield is truly a pocketful of sunshine. A golden split cape draped glistened off her shoulders as she took the stage at 9:30 Club on the venue’s annual “930 Day.” (That is to say, September 30th.) She opened with the jumpy rocker “Love Like This.”
Bedingfield offered one of her biggest hits, “Pocketful of Sunshine,” early in the night, and the crowd nearly drowned her out by singing along. She included a snippet of “Running Up That Hill” toward the end. It was surprising how much she sounds like fellow English pop star Kate Bush.
Beddingfield projected joy with every note she sang. Even on the darker numbers. During the sultry “Glory Box,” her voice smoldered through an unending smile. That made the crowd go even wilder than they did for “Sunshine.”
Bedingfield is backed by three talented musicians: a guitarist/bassist, keyboardist, and drummer. They created a full sound that filled the venue. With Bedingfield’s signature being a sort of keyboard-heavy pop-rock sound, it makes sense that the strings would be a utility player.
It’s obvious that Natasha Bedingfield just loves music. Across various songs, she broke out into quick covers of “I’m Every Woman,” “You Can Feel It All Over,” and more. A full cover of “Purple Rain” showed off the richness of her rock vocals, outside the usual pop music she’s most known for. It was a stellar showcase. And her guitarist shredded the familiar solo.
She equally loves her fans. She spent most of the night on the very edge of the stage, interacting with as many as she could. She threw out merch, took selfies, and even held up an iPad at 9:30 pm. It was the magic moment, she said: 9:30 at night at 9:30 Club on 9/30.
And the crowd loved her back. They sang every word to last year’s release “These Words,” which includes the literal phrase “ I love you, I love you, I love you.”
She saved “Unwritten” for the very end. It’s a quintessential millennial song from my generation’s middle school era. It seemed to define a future we all longed to reach. Especially if we came to the song by watching the soapy lives of the beautiful, rich, and horny on The Hills. And now, having reached the mystique of adulthood Bedingfield so expertly poeticized—and having belted it with her as a collective—we realize there are still so many blank pages before us.
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