Guernsey born Alex Crossan AKA Mura Masa is a man of many talents. He’s an electronic music producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist and his set absolutely blew us away tonight with an impressive headline performance on the BBC R1 Stage.
Incredibly talented, Grammy award winner Mura Masa has achieved over a billion streams of his music and tonight he treated us to a setlist of dreams. Special guests help him bring the party, including Bonzai, who features on hit track ‘Nuggets’, Jay Prince who features on ‘Low’ and last but not least, Slowthai – with their incredibly catchy, gritty collaboration ‘Doorman’ cooking up a storm.
We were treated to hits ‘1 Night’ (which features Charli XCX), a cover of Foals anthem ‘Night Swimmers’ and the bangers we’ve all been waiting for – ‘Love$ick’ and finale track ‘Firefly.’ New material shows he’s going back to his alternative roots, with the showcasing of rock-infused new track ‘I Don’t Think I Can Do This Again’ which features Clairo. It was only released 3 days ago, but it absolutely bangs and the crowd went mental for it – proving to be an instant hit.
There were crazy screams for finale track ‘Firefly’, with the crowd jumping and visibly wanting more. Mura Masa took his final bow in disbelief of the party he’s started. If that show was anything to go by, we haven’t seen the last of him yet.
