CONNECTIVITY

Grace Petrie is feeling good. There’s a hell of a lot to be angry about, and rest assured we’ll get to that, but today she is back where she belongs, on the road after a pandemic-enforced 18-month hiatus. Her brilliant new album, Connectivity, has officially made the top 40 and is number one in the download chart. And, as if all that wasn’t wonderful enough, Grace is in love.

When we chat via Zoom, the Leicester-based singer-songwriter is in a cafe in Exeter, squeezing our call in before she gears up for tonight’s gig. She’s chuffed to be onstage again, joking, “I mean, you know, I’m deeply narcissistic”. Hailed “the voice of a generation” for her open-hearted and politically charged music, she’s built