Darren Hanlon - The Horatio, London

Nipped across town with my buddy Justin to see Darren Hanlon do a short-notice solo show in London. I'd not been to the Horatio before, but it seems like an ok room providing most of the crowd is respectful of the performer (as they were with Dazza) but less so with support act Dan of Green Gables.
Kicking off with 'Electric Skeleton', Darren was in great form despite picking up a cold while in the UK. I'm absolutely loving Darren's new record 'I Will Love You At All' - I think it's easily the best record he's made - so it was great to hear "Buy Me Presents", "Scenes from A Seperation" and an excellent version of "Home" in stripped back format.
A friend of Darren's (sorry missed the name but she had an outstanding voice) joined for the duet "All These Things" and stayed to take on lead vocals for "Fire Engine".
Promopting for requests, the mostly Australian crowd got fairly rowdy and pushed for a lot of older songs like "She Cuts Hair" and the main set closing "Falling Aeroplanes".
It was also great to hear a cover of The Go-Between's "Lee Remick" and I really enjoy the banjo-heavy cover of "Pinball Millionaire".
Unfortunately with a lot of chatting between songs, the show was too quickly at an end, leaving only time for a short one-song encore of "Folk Insomnia".
Full setlist:
01 Electric Skeleton
02 Buy Me Presents
03 A-Z
04 Spend Christmas Day With Me
05 Scenes from A Seperation
06 She Cuts Hair
07 Lee Remick
08 Home
09 I Waited for the 17
10 Fire Engine
11 All These Things
12 Pinball Millionaire
13 Elbows
14 Punk's Not Dead
15 Falling Aeroplanes
16 Folk Insomnia