Photo Credit: Rob Donald
Words: Isobel Greenhalgh
Tucked away in the South of Cornwall is a music venue like no other, placed in the middle of steel framed natural biomes lays a busy open stage. This Saturday’s Eden Session hosted British house, EDM and dance-pop music vocalist, Becky Hill for a promising night of a festival-like atmosphere. With an excited crowd of differing demographics, there seemed something so largely intimate to be tucked in an audience craving summer anthems with a jumping bass.
With warm-up acts Charlie Gardener and Tom Aspaul playing a range of hand banging anthems and heavy beats, the sunkissed crowd was building heavy in anticipation, drinks in hand and head to toe in glitter.
Selling out her premier headliner at iconic South-West venue, The Eden Project, the pressure was on to bring energy and atmosphere in such an open-air space with varying age ranges. Building on unity, the crowd fell silent as Becky’s voice held the audience’s attention with a strong advocate message of Surfers Against Sewage, a UK campaign urging the protection of the sea. The loud and strong message to the crowd most affected by the cause brought roars of community.
The crowd erupted into cheers as Becky Hill, glowing in a strong spotlight, began her performance with 2022 summer hit ‘Crazy What Love Can Do’. Jumping around in notably shiny heels and decked out with chunky accessories, Hill’s outfit paired in perfect harmony with newly advertised cover of unreleased album ‘REBECCA’. Cut short to transition into hit single ‘Gecko (OVERDRIVE)’, the sense of community only grew further with people on shoulders and dancing dads, gaining air kisses from the performer into the crowd of screaming enthusiasts.
Continuing the set with throwbacks to the beginning of Hill’s career strong vocals came from the likes of ‘Piece Of Me’ and ‘Back And Forth’ which saw to and fro singing between Becky and the applauding crowd. With accompanying flashing lights from inside the dome, the show seemed to only grow in excitement with the audience bouncing around, arms high in the open air and heads bopping to the rhythm. The mood continued with heavy backing from brass accompaniment, and electric guitar for newest release, ‘Keep Your Hands On Me’ which featured as the opening track on Love Island 2026. Despite only being recently released, Hill grabbed the full attention of all in attendance with gritty bass and modern pop-rock melodies.
Pausing to allow the crowd a breather, Becky then took a minute to reminisce on the last time she was at The Eden Project with her brother in 2023 and how she had dreamed of performing on stage there. She then took a beat to appreciate the crowd and her team before continuing on to some new and Unreleased songs, making note to compare how the previous gig she had done in Scotland “Didn’t care for the newer songs” as she tries to escape older songs that have ”followed her around for so many years”. The message behind the unknown title of the song that followed seemed deeply rooted in the mess of misogyny and control that continues in the music industry, this was also relayed in the music video that played behind.
The night followed on with a few more classics like ‘Disconnect’ which had the crowd belting out lyrics, hands high in the sky before ‘Afterglow’, which saw the crowd jumping about and dancing when remixed with an afrobeat to conclude the song. She then played unreleased songs ‘More! More! More!’ and ‘What Do I Have To Do’ which compared more to modern drum and bass anthems with drum and vocals breakdowns, catchy choruses and bass that spread through the crowd. As the night came to a close the audience grew in energy for the long awaited dance/electric anthems, ‘Wish You Well’ and ‘Remember’ which had the entire venue dancing about and singing along, arms round one another. These energetic and head-thumping final songs seemed to conclude the night perfectly as the crowd held on to that 2010’s summer feeling to kick off the first of the sold out shows at Eden Sessions of 2026.
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