Regina Spektor captivates the King Tut's Wah Wah Tent

In the King Tut's Wah Wah Tent Regina Spektor is settled behind a black grand piano which fills most of the centre of the stage. Her drummer is pushed stage right and a small string section are huddled in the shadows.

Dressed in a sparkly black dress her delightful, yelping East Coast voice darts through the bouncing folk of opener 'The Calculation', leaping along on chiming piano chords and sharp violins.

'On The Radio' is tender, pained and pretty, with majestic strings and tinkling piano. At its finish, Spektor seems genuinely moved by the response she gets. Tumbling piano arpeggios and dancing hi-hat usher in 'Machine', which breaks into booming end-of-the-world dark piano chords in its middle eight. It's a haunting moment as she spits the final words "And the future/Its here/Its bright/Its now".

'Laughing With' is given a slow, patient opening, Spektor's voice both yearning and vulnerable and cutely endearing and warm as she whispers her way through a story of the injustices in a cruel world, overseen by a God with a sense of humour.

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