through Debbie Harry and Madonna. Sky's breakthrough song Everything is Embarrassing continues the rapture of Jellybean/Nile Rodgers-era Madonna, together with Giorgio Moroder's absorbing pop moments from Blondie's Call Me to Berlin's Take My Breath Away, all washed through with a 2013 refresh. Throughout her music there is a coalition of euphoria and melancholy, its reflective, confessional break-up lyrics pinned down by brooding, ecstatic pop. Which is very Sky; when she opens up she can be feisty, honest and provocative, but her default appears decidedly introvert and contemplative.

I used to spend my birthday at Michael Jackson's house. It was a regular nice house; it wasn't like he was riding roller coasters, eating cotton candy by himself, you know.

As Sky finishes her headline set that evening at Scala in King'sCross, she reaches into her pocket and pulls out a bottle of Smirnoff Ice and screams. She has been "iced". This has been an ongoing prank during her stay in London. Living in a house with her band, she's found herself inadvertently becoming one of the lads, staying up all night working through South Park box-sets, and getting "iced." "Icing" is a drinking game that involves hiding a bottle of Smirnoff Ice and tricking someone into finding it. Once you've found it, you get on your knees and down it. On stage, as the band leap around her and holler, she drops to the floor and necks the bottle in seconds. It looks as though Sky has no problem keeping up with the boys.

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