IT WAS a stripped back performance featuring a live band, a basic staging and the beautiful vocals of a leading lady.

As Gabrielle Aplin took to the floor of the O2 Academy Bournemouth, she seems a force to be reckoned with, and supports the idea that looks can be deceiving.

Based on appearance she is sweet, dressed in a white lace top and soft brown leather skirt, laden with several acoustic guitars and the awkward mumble in between songs which shows her tender age of 21.

Then, when you think you’ve worked her out, she starts singing some of her hits and it takes a moment to notice the sting in the tail, with tracks such as Panic Cord and Please Don’t Say You Love Me.

She is a girl who knows her own mind and it doesn’t take her long to win the audience over and get them singing back to her.

For a brief moment, we had a pause in proceedings as she dashed off stage after believing that somebody had fallen ill in the crowd, but she soon returned after checking with the crew backstage.

Gabrielle Aplin has also taken several music festivals by storm, with her easy-listening, laid back album, English Rain, but it is in a more intimate space, like the O2 Academy, that she really seems to take pride of place.