Paolo Nutini - Don’t Let Me Down

Uploaded By ► Red Grey Matter ’’Enjoy Your Day’’ About, Paolo Nutini is a rock star – and he certainly seems to be, as his Caustic Love album was 2014’s fourth-biggest seller, and his arena tour is sold out – then he’s not having any of it. His primary attribute, apart from his scuffed-up white-soul rasp, is a good-eggness that has him starting 25 minutes late in order to accommodate fans delayed by tube problems. His reward is a particularly lusty collective shriek when he eventually slouches on stage, party-casual in black T-shirt, jeans and aerated hair. Your average showboater would lap up the love; Nutini just waves and settles into Scream (Funk My Life Up), a Caledonian cousin of Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk. He’s hard to read. Give him a torch song such as Diana – all sultry blue notes and low lighting – and he’s deeply affecting, dipping languidly into the 1960s southern soul reservoir. Give him an upbeat number like Pencil Full of Lead – stripped of its New Orleans-jazz synco