'You're at the mercy of the audience'

Three days ago, she was performing in front of more than 20,000 Chris Brown fans at the O2 Arena; tonight, she's singing in a London pub, both floors of which could comfortably fit on to the O2 stage. Yet as she and her acoustic guitarist and bass player wriggle through the crowd and set up in the space in front of the pub's DJ booth, 23-year-old Zarif Davidson confesses that she's got a bad case of nerves."The main difference is that in the big venues you can't see people's faces," she says, an...

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