Aldous Harding review – a stare in the making

Omeara, London
New Zealand’s latest export is a compellingly theatrical performer of her extraordinary songsAldous Harding fixes a person in the front row of this tiny venue with a basilisk stare. It seems to last an age. Really, it’s just the matter of a few hushed and pregnant bars of fingerpicked guitar. Then the extraordinary New Zealand folk singer pouts, juts her chin out like Keith Richards, manspreads her white-trousered legs on her stool, rolls her eyes back and opens her mo