That’s what we call a proper Christmas present.
Words: Jamie Muir.
Photos: Derek Bremner.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, right? So how should your Friendly Neighbourhood Dork celebrate the occasion? By bringing one of the most exciting acts of 2024 to London’s Colours Hoxton for Dork’s Christmas Night Out. Enter: Master Peace.
If you’ve been to a festival this summer, you’ve likely been pulled in by the Master Peace experience. With one foot in electric indie bangers and the other in unstoppable club energy, resistance is futile. In ‘How To Make A Master Peace’, he has a debut album that captures his world without pause; it’s rightfully earned acclaim while making one thing clear: Master Peace is here for a good time and wants everyone along for the ride. Tonight, he celebrates that transformative year.
Bounding onto stage to the rabble-rousing ‘LOS NARCOS’, he transforms Colours Hoxton into an immediate frenzy. It shows what has made Master Peace such a sensation. Speaking direct with no filter while turning anger, despair and fear into joy – his show radiates confidence. The swaggering ‘LOO SONG’ slams into a moshpit-kicking riot with ‘I Might Be Fake’, and ‘Start You Up’ lands as a bouncing knockout.
Throughout the show, Peace commands every space, turning the venue into both a fizzing rave and an intimate house party. He bounds across the stage, leading the room with arms swinging one moment and knee-jumping workouts the next. ‘Get Naughty’ and early cuts ‘Veronica’ and ‘Achilles Heel’ spark moments of pure fun, but ‘Home’ emerges as his universal anthem. A track about refusing to go home alone and stretching out the moment, it captures what everyone at Dork’s Christmas Night Out feels.
Master Peace caps off a year of smashing through boundaries, and tonight suggests 2025 will be his too. A poet laureate for a modern generation raving away their frustration – that’s what we call a proper Christmas present.
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