Laura Veirs | Pop review

Academy, ManchesterLady Gaga has a bra firing sparks; La Roux has that gravity-defying quiff. Pacific north-western chanteuse Laura Veirs's only visual prop is the large bulge that lies between her normally elfin body and her guitar. "When's the baby due?" someone shouts. "April 15," she retorts. "By which time I will be a whale."It's typical Veirs – performing while heavily pregnant goes against the ­conventions of the industry within which she is a cult rather than commercial ­fig...

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