The next time Maggie Rogers plays Ireland, it’s unlikely she’ll be performing at a venue as intimate as The Academy. The 24-year-old singer started the show with a bang entering the stage to ABBA’s ‘Dancing Queen’. She then kicked into a thundering version of 'Give A Little' - a song written the day students walked out of schools across America demanding congressional action on gun control.

Donning black and white chequered trousers, a simple white vest, and red boots, Rogers declares: “This is the first show I’ve played with my album out in the world and it feels fucking awesome.”

The NYU graduate then goes on to perform Heard It In A Past Life – already a sizeable international hit – in its entirety. “People change overnight / Things get strange, but I’m alright” she sings with a breathy vocal on ‘Overnight’, before belting out her breakthrough number, ‘Alaska’.

It’s the opening night of a world tour that will see the Maryland native roll through Europe, North America and Australia in the coming months.

On Thursday, there was rarely a moment Rogers stood still meaning she lost her microphone transmitter several times before an aid taped it to her back.

“I’m dancing so hard that my pack so I can hear keeps failing out of my pants. We are just going to tape it. I hope everybody tonight else dances out of their pants tonight.”

To mark Valentine’s Day, the stage is decked out in heart-shaped balloons. “I hope all of you have great sex after this, I really do,” says Rogers. “If you’re going home to cry, or if you’re going home to fuck, this is a great song for both.” With that, she launches into a stripped back version of Whitney Houston’s ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’.

Meanwhile, before the final track of the evening, ‘Fallingwater’, Rogers hits a disarmingly tender note. “This song we’re about to play is born of a considerable amount of confusion, doubt, sadness and concern for the world,” she says. “When I sing this song now, I’m in a really different place. It was worth every last bit to get to tonight.”