Biig Piig Live in Belfast: A Wonderful Sprinkling of Manic Energy Arrives at Limelight

At Limelight last week, Biig Piig brought her high-octane, genre-bending music to Belfast as her UK tour continues at pace.

As fans gradually filtered into the venue, Biig Piig, by the time she came on stage, had a captive audience to engage and interact with.

Her music, renowned for its fluidity between song and rap, is easy to bop along to. Be it pumping through your headphones on a commute or right in front of your own two eyes, in the flesh.

Originally from Cork, but having lived a large chunk of her life in Spain, Biig Piig’s continental influences are reflected in her variety of tonal shifts and cultured ear, helping inform her latest works. She also knows how to engage and hype up a crowd, generating a warming, whirlwind atmosphere on a dank outside, weekday winter’s night.

Biig Piig, as any good performer does, moves in tune with her own sounds, whirring her audience’s volume up another notch, more effectively than most footballers can gee up an unimpressed, uninspired, crowd of home fans.

It’s that innate ability to connect, to tap into people, to give us a giddy urge to dance, that Biig Piig also writes with. Her lyrics are eloquently penned and reflective of our feelings on passing seasons and escaping days. Mirroring perhaps, missed opportunities for love, that she has experienced herself or that, undoubtedly, many of her listeners will, at some point, have themselves.

Most of all, there’s a likeability about her, as a person, and an artist, that allures you into her world and how she sees it. Belfast’s response to Biig Piig drew one, overarching feeling as she performed: Connection. Something she has in abundance, on stage or in your earphones.