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Noisettes set a foot-stomping, tongue-clicking, stage-invading tone last night that brought the warm heart of Africa to Islington in advance of October’s vinspired Lake of Stars festival in Malawi.

In the hallowed surroundings of the Union Chapel, Noisettes frontwoman Shingai Shoniwa shimmered, strutted and swung her way through a spine-tingling set. She opened by flinging off her shoes and closed it, clad in a gold sequinned catsuit, perched perilously atop the stone pulpit on the rose-strewn stage (Health and Safety Executive of Malawi, beware).

In between, festooned in white feathers and a covetous golden headdress, Shingai invited onstage her 16 year-old (and,...