Kate Fox and the Travelling Waverlies
Razed Voices One
Thursday 2 October
Described as a cabaret/poetry event, Razed Voices One brought together Kate Fox and a band of singer/songwriter/poets variously described as the Travelling Waverlies and the Gravediggers Arms Irregulars.
After a first half in which amplification proved more of an obstacle than an aid to clarity, the unplugged portion of the evening showed a growing rapport between the performers and the audience.
The style of the Travelling Waverlies - Mike Dillon, Martin Boland (left), Billy Cornwall (below), Mark Barnett, Tom and Jane Fairnie - showed the influence of the singer/songwriters of the 1960s and just a touch of country, but their material addressed the Edinburgh of today, and in particular the Gravediggers Arms, either the cradle of its muse or its downfall, depending on who you listened to.
Kate Fox, billed as a stand-up poet - "well, I'm a poet and I'm standing up" - drew on a more general popular culture with poems about Suzanna and Trinnie inside her head, dragons and a Geordie affirmation considerered as an existential question:
Why aye!
Why I?
Why, aye!
(No guarantees about the spelling, but try reading it aloud, you'll get the general idea!)
