Del Water Gap’s London Show Review 
Del Water Gap’s cathartic headline show at London’s Roundhouse
Words by Ana Bhardwaj
A crowd of indie pop lovers take to North London to watch Del Water Gap’s headline show at Roundhouse – playing on the iconic St Patrick’s Day as part of his UK and Europe run of the Chasing The Chimera World Tour. The show is nothing short of fan favourites, an impromptu Goo Goo Dolls cover, and intense light shows in perfect synchrony with each song.
Del Water Gap (stage name for musician Samuel Holden Jaffe) opens the show with the somewhat mellow but groovy ‘Small Town Joan Of Arc’, delighting fans as he took to the beautifully decorated stage with huge white sheets.
He wasted no time delivering a pretty much perfect setlist – some slower songs, such as ‘High Tops’, to really get you in your feels, to upbeat tunes like ‘All We Ever Do Is Talk’, where you can hold your friends and dance the night away. His crowd interaction was so strong, letting an eager fan change the coloured lights whilst his lighting director “[had to take] a break” through doing a mosh pit during ‘Perfume’ to quite literally sewing (yes, with a sewing machine) a memento for a fan on stage
Were some of us, hopefully, expecting a surprise appearance perhaps from Niall Horan himself (given it was St Paddy’s Day), probably, but the show kept going with just Del Water Gap’s incredible setlist – a well-deserved moment for a huge show in his career. Not to mention getting every single person in the room singing along with his cover of ‘Iris’ by Goo Goo Dolls, leaving the crowd on a high.
His European tour continues into next month, with a run of North American festivals later in the summer.
