Post Show: Soap&Skin at the Purcell Room

Who better to provide the soundtrack to a forbiddingly gloomy October evening than Soap&Skin, the experimental music project of 19-year-old Viennese singer-songwriter Anja Plaschg. Having opened for Patti Smith at Meltdown Festival in June of this year, this time she returns to Southbank Centre a headline act. A hush falls on the Purcell Room as she drifts on stage, clad in black, a Tim Burton-esque fantasy of wild hair, cheekbones and ghostly pallor.