Not really folk. Not really blues. But I thought some people might contemplate going to see her. If you do, be warned. Don't.

Saw her at the Arts Theatre in Cambridge - SK and four musicians (piano, guitar, bass, sax). The pianist was pretty good. The less said about the others, the better: the guitarist was technically highly competent but soul-less; the bassist thought random notes were a good thing; and the sax player wouldn't shut up (which wouldn't have been so bad if he did anything interesting).

On top of that, SK really isn't a very good singer. She's got a minimal vocal range, and an equally minimal expressive range. And on top of that, her set was very poorly chosen. OK, I know she's just covered "The Trolley Song", but you have to be a pretty bad choice of material to want to perform it on stage. There was essentially no variety of types of song, or even much variety of rhythm.

Not that it was bad as such - no-one was out of time or out of tune. More accurately, it was blah. Had it been a reasonable semi-pro band playing in a restaurant, it would have been fine - bland background music you don't mind talking over it. To pay good money to sit through that though, forget it. We were thinking of leaving in the interval in the hope that it would improve in the second half, but sadly not.

If you want to do jazz, you're better going to see Jacqui Dankworth, who was also on in Cambridge not long ago, and who was very good indeed (in spite of some not-very-good self-written songs). Don't waste your money on Stacey Kent.

Graham.