JASMIN JET AT THE VOODOO ROOMS: TEN YEARS IN THE MAKING
LIVE REVIEW & PHOTO GALLERY | JASMIN JET w/ Florence Jack & Aidan Jones | THE VOODOO ROOMS, EDINBURGH | 12th June 2026 by Bryden Churchmichael
Halfway through Sweet Bliss, Jasmin Jet stops singing to do her makeup.
“Do you mind if I just quickly touch up my lip liner, is that okay? I wouldn’t wanna continue the show with really bad lip liner.” Then, pencil still in hand, eyeing the room: “Okay, I think I should take a selfie too, actually, in the middle of the show. Is that okay? Well, it’s my show, so I can do what I want.” She holds the phone up over the crowd. “Make sure you all get in it. All 180 of you.”
The room laughs, then cheers. She finishes the song. You can’t teach that. It’s the confidence of someone who stopped performing confidence a long time ago and just turned up as herself.
She’s been doing this ten years. She told us so herself, in that warm unhurried way she has of talking to a room: “I’ve been doing this for around nine years. Writing for ten now.”
Ten years of working out who she is on a stage, and by the time she gets to the Voodoo Rooms on a packed Friday night in June, it shows in everything. The yellow floral dress. The feather boa spilling pink and yellow down the mic stand. The acoustic guitar over her shoulder for the quieter songs, the band behind her in matching white shirts, the bassist with a pair of red rose sunglasses hanging round his neck.
The room was already warm before she walked on. Florence Jack opened, an Aberdeenshire singer-songwriter with a harmonising partner who moved between keys and guitar depending on the song, and the two voices together did something quiet and necessary to a crowd that mostly hadn’t heard her before. I hadn’t. But the writing held up against the vocals and you could feel the room clock it.
Then Aidan Jones, unapologetically himself, all pop confidence and warmth, who covered Caledonia and had every age in the place singing along, all the way through. You don’t plan that. Caledonia is one for everyone and tonight it worked exactly like that.
So by the time Jasmin opened with Classy Woman, the room was hers and happy to be. Properly happy, the intergenerational kind where you look around and can’t work out how everyone ended up in the same place.
Little Love is the one that got me. Catchy in the way that follows you out the door. She plays Black Tears too, the Imelda May song she sang on her way to being named Scottish Young Musicians Best Vocalist back in 2022. “That’s so fun to sing,” she says after. “I love being dramatic.”
But the room really locks in during Too Late to Change: “you wanna play with fire while I watch you burn, you wanna dance with the devil, well you better, spin and turn.” Clever writing, sung like she means every word.
She co-produced the EP, Trust the Process, with James Allen, who’s stage left on the night with a cream Strat, and when she brings him up she just asks for a round of applause. “We were totally zoned. We couldn’t be more proud. To have it on vinyl and CD and to say I’ve got music on Spotify, because I’m cool like that.”
There’s an ABBA cover in the set too. “I love to pay a little homage to the artists that inspire me and inspired this EP. I wanna see the best dance moves for this one. This is Gimme Gimme Gimme.” Then: “I’m gonna come over here and dance, is that alright?” And she’s into the crowd, down the middle, the band playing on without her. She dances with fans, dances with Aidan Jones, moves through the room like someone entirely at home in it. The track never stops.
She says “Right,” and she’s back up onto the stage to finish it off. “That was fun,” she says when it’s done. A woman in the crowd shouts back, “That was FUNNN. You go girl.” Jasmin grins.
When it’s over she doesn’t leave. She stays at the merch table until the room empties, taking photos, signing things, talking to everyone who waited. At one point she’s on someone’s phone saying hello to a friend who couldn’t make it. Ten years in, a packed room, an EP on vinyl, and she’s the last one out the door because there were still people who wanted to say hi.
Trust the Process is out now on vinyl, CD and streaming.
