Back in 2018, this magazine named Sigrid as our “Female Artist Of The Year” and the EP “Raw” our EP of the year. We predicted her debut album “Sucker Punch” would make the top 5 in the UK after its May 2019 release.
The album went straight in at # four and stayed in the chart for 15 weeks. Since then we have consistently championed this uber-talented Norwegian pocket rocket and will continue to do so.
As a singer her voice is wonderful. Spine-tinglingly sweet and also really powerful. The emotional connection she has with her audience is palpable. But as a song writer she is way up there in ability, class, quality and in the gift she clearly possesses.
All of that comes together on her latest album, her third, “There’s Always More That I Could Say” which is less poppy and a bloody triumph. Released on 24th October 2025; and as I write this, I’d predict a top 20 spot in this week’s UK album chart, and to peak in the Top five in the next few weeks.
Sigrid is currently on a six-date “Outstore” tour of the UK – Bristol, Nottingham, Brighton, Kingston, Southampton and Liverpool – playing intimate gigs acoustically as a trio, in conjunction with local record stores.
Here in conjunction with Banquet Records – as a last push before the Official album chart on Friday – to promote the album; where she plays a big chunk of the songs from the 10-track record.
We caught her on night four, in Kingston upon Thames near London in the gorgeous surroundings of a working church, All Saints, with her colleagues, Scarlett Halton on piano, guitar, bass and backing vocals, Sondre Abrahamsen on guitar and Jan Thomas Halsvik on the [excellent] sound mix.
There were two shows here: An early one at 6pm and then one at 8pm. The same nine songs in the setlist for each sitting. Six of the songs are on the new album.
Setlist
Sucker Punch
Do It Again
I’ll Always Be Your Girl
There’s Always More That I Could Say
Eternal Sunshine
Strangers
Have You Heard This Song Before
Jellyfish
Don’t Kill My Vibe
There were at least 150 in for the early show and an estimated 200 for the second – mostly standing apart from a few folk in the pews at the side. Wide age range from maybe 10 to retirees and many knew the words to most of the songs.
A small make-shift portable boarded-out stage was a fair few feet away from the lovely stained glass window behind her, and Sigrid was on a chair for all but one of the songs, “Strangers”, where Sigrid was alone on stage on piano.
A mic stand and mic for company. Scarlett to her right and Sondre to her left, both sat down for the show. It really was an up-close and personal affair for the crowd. The house lights stayed on for the duration; a shame that there wasn’t more subdued lighting and maybe the stained glass window lit up. But for a big echoey church, the sound was spot on.
Sigrid wearing grey Levi jeans and a shirt; usually a white tee-shirt, but this time it was black and long sleeves pushed up, plus canvas baseball boots. She looks young enough to be a teenager with her freckles and long hair, but is in fact 29.
Bubbly, a beaming smile and seemingly loving her job. Chatty between songs. She has a mischievous cheeky manner; saying she had to make sure not to swear in a church!
Speaking about the meaning of the songs, and before the fantastic “Do it Again”, Sigrid tells the crowd how much she loves this new album, how she would not change a thing about it, and how it took her “two or three years” to make it. And that she has a co-producer credit on it; “which is about time”, she adds to applause.
From the new LP, she performed “Do It Again”, “I’ll Always Be Your Girl”, the title track, “There’s Always More That I Could Say”, “Eternal Sunshine”, “Have You Heard This Song Before”, and the fun “Jellyfish” – just before this one Sigrid spotted two young fans who had brought along toy jellyfish.
The set opened with the title song of her debut album “Sucker Punch”, and closed with the banger that launched her career, “Don’t Kill My Vibe”.
We have seen Ms Sigrid Solbakk Raabe aka Sigrid on major festival stages several times, and she always smashes it in front of many thousands each time. Here in this Surrey church it felt special. Very special. Unique.
Dare I say; brave too. No hiding place for the vocals which were 100% faultless. Breathtakingly and spine-tinglingly so. Like she was singing just for you.
When songs get stripped down to the bare bones of acoustic guitar and vocal, you find out just how good or not, they are.
These songs from the new album are the best she has penned, and will stand the test of time. The Ivor Novello and The Mercury Prize judges need to listen to this gem, for sure.
All Saints Church was built in the 12th Century, with a long history stretching back to the Saxon Kings. Athelstan – the first King of All England – was crowned on this site in 925 AD, making this the place where England began.
After being crowned in Kingston, Athelstan defeated the Scots and The Vikings, aka The Norsemen, unifying regional kingdoms into one nation. As many as eight Saxon Kings were consecrated here.
Well, in October 2025 this Norsewoman Queen came, she saw and most definitely conquered…
- Sigrid heads out on a major headline tour across Europe and the UK in March 2026, marking her first full run of shows since 2023, and she also joins Ed Sheeran on his “Loop” tour across North America in the summer of 2026. UK dates are:
13th Mar London Roundhouse
16th Mar Birmingham O2 Academy
18th Mar Leeds O2 Academy
19th Mar Manchester Academy
21st Mar Dublin 3Olympia Theatre
24th Mar Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom
Photos by Alex Asprey
Words by Emma Ledwell
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