if you look at my wifes large CD collection,
its mostly women singer songwriters of various genres and nationalities..
she particularly enjoys the fashionable contemporary commercial chart stuff
that gets promoted in 'Marie Clare' / weekend newspaper magazines,etc;
as well as classic folk & country singers from the last 40 odd years..
she's definitely very receptive to new female voices and styles..

but she totaly lost interest in the albion daughters concert
and spent most of it obliviously reading a dense historical novel..




..independent of anything written here or anywhere else..

her opinion of the show was that it was "so dreary" !

i wouldn't argue with her,
i thought this production was striving too hard
for 'shallow' safe middle brow sophistication & critical appreciation
at the cost of any true vibrancy of emotion
or genuine stylistic musical progression..


but then again, i'd have preferred any of Pj Harvey's
distorted guitar amp driven old touring bands
or an abrasive psaltry / hurdy gurdy style early music
and electric guitars rock line-up
to have provided the backing music
than that bunch of insipid soft music college hacks..