To see Joss Stone in photographs makes a person think of a young, melancholy woman. How wrong can you be! Joss Stone takes to the stage in an explosion of tension and excitement. Every part of her is moving throughout the concert as she catches every beat and rhythm.

The concert at the RDS was big time America, a taste of Hollywood for the surprisingly young audience. It was also a long way from the talent contest she entered at thirteen on the BBC from her home in Devon. Joss is now 5 foot 10 inches tall and at eighteen lives in New York.

Joss has two albums, sold four million copies worldwide with one of them, being nominated for three Grammies and winning two Brits. She has performed duets with Mick Jagger and Robbie Williams and has modelled for Gap magazine. She says she wants 5 children.

On the night, the support band Mattafix was an all-male band who performed a lazy set of downbeat jazz. Miss Stone took her time taking to the stage as her multi-ethnic band played the intro to ‘Super Duper love’, (Diggin’ on me), a song taken from her first CD, ‘The soul sessions’.

She danced barefoot throughout the concert and had to stop the opening to one song due to screams from the front of the audience which seemed to overcome her. She also sang ‘The Choking Kind’, another favourite of the Irish audience.

Joss can really let go, and involved the audience as much as possible, with chants following her lead. After forty five minutes the band entered into a fifteen minute version of the hit, ‘Some kind of wonderful’.

The world is this nymphette’s oyster and I wish her all the best, she is a welcome relief from egotistical bands that may excite with their lifestyles but fail to strike any real chord with men and women in relationships .

If you are expecting a slow blues gig you’ll be more than surprised.