“Is the world moving fast for you as well?” Loyle Carner asks the crowd part way through his sold-out gig at the O2 Victoria Warehouse.
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Standing beneath a street light prop, he takes a moment to soak it all in, clearly overwhelmed by the reaction. Towards the end of the song, he's joined on stage by teenage activist Athian Akec, who delivers a poignant speech on knife crime to rapturous applause.