Ten months of eager anticipation finally came to fruition on Monday night, the seventh of November: I attended Dylan’s concert at KOKO in London. Succinctly following the singer’s mixtape “The Greatest Thing I’ll Never Learn”, Dylan completed the first few legs of the tour she announced in February, including Glasgow, Manchester, and Birmingham. The sixth was at the Camden venue, KOKO. 

 At seven, doors opened. At eight, an unexpected opening act stepped out onto the stage: Ewan Mainwood, playing “No One Saving Me” and “Waiting For You”, whetting the appetites of anyone who’d never heard Mainwood’s music before, as tension built for the main act.

 The time crept along and it was nine o’clock, two hours after the initial flood into the venue. The restlessness was building, tangible in the air, when someone spotted the guitarist slinking onto the stage, at last. Breath held, room tense, Dylan appeared with her own technicolour guitar in tow. She played the first few notes of her new title single “The Greatest Thing”, and the entire concert hall exploded. 

 She played from her two most recent albums- “No Romeo” and “The Greatest Thing I’ll Never Learn”- in addition to an exclusive new song that the singer has yet to drop. Two thirds of the way through the concert, the lights fell and the atmosphere softened. Dylan shared a heartfelt explanation of her song “Home Is Where The Heart Is”. Then, one by one, the audience held up posters, printed with messages of support, that a particular fan had handed out in the rain outside. Messages included, “We Are So Proud Of You” and “Home Is Wherever You Are”. 

 On Dylan’s KOKO performance, Oliver Brown said this: “It was great. The energy, the enthusiasm, it was all very compelling. People who’d been dragged along- boyfriends, dads, mums- were soon hooked on Dylan’s music and her performance quality. An act I’d see again.” 

The singer has talked about her London performance, in an Instagram post saying it was “the best night of her life.”