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The young X Factor contestant graced the stage of The Waterfront in Norwich on Sunday night. She drew in a big crowd of mostly teenage girls filling the venue to capacity. Her band started playing before she took to the stage; this got the young girls screaming and chanting Diana. She ran onto the stage with a great presence going straight into her first song.

After her first song she talked to the crowd saying that we would be hearing a lot from her new album that was released on the 3rd of May. She made a theme of talking to the crowd, explaining the background behind each song before singing it. This gave a good sense of background and showed her thinking behind each song. It also extended her set; since she is a new artist she has not amassed a large number of tracks yet. This unfortunately meant that, despite the explanation behind each song, she had a fairly short set of only an hour.

Her singing was suburb, using a mixture of high notes and a hushed breathy voice for different songs. She has a distinctive voice which works very well in giving her slightly different sound to the fairly packed pop genre. She talked about how she is a big fan of Nerina Pallot and how excited she was that she had written a song for her "Put It Back Together". Another song that was written for her was "Just Say Yes" by Snow Patrol, she explained that they gave it to her and realised what an amazing song it was, so asked to have it back, which she didn't seem to mind.

She had a great presence on stage dancing to her songs and gesticulating wildly. It was obvious she was having a lot of fun performing on stage, almost as much as the people watching her. For her song "My Hip" she also played a trumpet, giving the song that something different making it a very enjoyable song. For such a young artist she is already very confident on the stage making her presence felt by everyone attending. Vickers gave an excellent show entertaining all throughout her set.