Eliza Doolittle

Despite being used to larger venues Doolittle made the most of the intimate location charming the room between belting out songs mostly taken from her upcoming album In Your Hands.

Islington Assembly Hall, London, UK

She's the granddaughter of Sylvia Young the daughter of a couple who met while working on the original run of Les Miserables and a child star of the same musical aged eight.

It is surely no coincidence that Eliza Doolittle's UK tour has kicked off just as the clocks have gone forward and the first mild breezes of spring have begun to blow.

I mean Lily Allen has it Kate Nash has it and the Sex Pistols had it – which ever way you look at it the Cockney brogue has made it’s ‘name’ and embedded itself deep within the British music culture.

Her debut album due in summer is cut from a similar cloth to Allen's – a collage of tastefully chosen vintage samples over which she trills her tales of being 21 and pretty in London.

Eliza Doolittle burst onto the scene in 2010 with an eponymous debut album charting at number 3. But Eliza has always been around music. Her Grandmother being the founder of the famous Sylvia Young Theatre School, and as a child having a part in the west-end production of 'Les Miserables'. But Eliza has paid