Event Date: December 5, 2008
Event Venue: Brudenell Leeds

Anyone who has heard her recorded work will know that she is sublimely gifted as a writer and singer, but there's a certain distancing effect there that renders her admirable rather than likeable.
Live on Friday, though, she was warm and funny and elegantly sexy. And still sublimely gifted - To Be Lonely brought a sometimes-rowdy venue to breath-bated silence. Appearing with just a drummer and a bassist (both of whom were wonderful) gave her voice all the room it needed to sound even more expressive and rich-toned than it is on record. If you were looking for faults, the first part of Anyone, which sounds better the slower it's sung, was a little rushed, but even so it was still like heaven for ears; this is the best female artist working in popular music today.