Live Review: Daniel Lee Kendall, Tully On Tully, Amy Rose

Amy Rose colour-coordinated her sapphire hair with a blue skirt and started strong with a Solange cover. She held the crowd well with delicate but assertive vocals over soft electronic-pop.

Tully On Tully vocalist Natalie Foster shot an intense gaze over the timid Brighton Up Bar crowd, one punter getting up close and trying to match her intensity but running back to his friends giggling when she asked him for a dance. If their new single, Two Birds, is anything to go by these guys are in for a big 2015.

Daniel Lee Kendall, or DLK as he referred to himself throughout the night, opened and closed with covers of musical kings. Standing solo on stage with nothing but his voice and his boots he stomped his way through Heartbreak Hotel and closed with the slowed-down cover of Rock With You he performed for triple j a few months back, borrowing dance moves from the Kings of Rock and Pop in the process.

In between he charmed the room with tales about how various songs were created, admitting Ms Beautiful Blue, off his 2014 album, Daniel Lee Kendall Is Dead, is an imaginary tale about a weekend getaway with a girl he was too shy to talk to in real life. His husky voice and larrikin demeanor are reminiscent of a younger, surfier Paul Dempsey, especially in the glimmering Under A Spell.

As the set progressed the crowd seemed to nod their heads, recognising more songs than perhaps they had anticipated. The 2010 Unearthed winner who returned to our airwaves this year following a journey of self-discovery, seems to have recaptured his love for music and is expressing it through songs that are gleaming with attention to detail and outright positivity.