Tracey Thorn

Tracey Thorn, former Everything But the Girl front woman, presents from her forthcoming book Naked at the Albert Hall; part memoir, part study of the spellbinding power of singing. Stories about Dusty Springfield, Dennis Potter and George Eliot combine with an exploration of the mechanics of singing, auto-tune, the microphone, stage presence and the phenomenon of The X Factor.

Drawing on portraits of singers in fiction, Thorn’s real-life experiences and interviews with Alison Moyet, The xx’s Romy Madley-Croft and Green Gartside of Scritti Politti, Naked at the Albert Hall is a witty and sharply observed insider’s perspective on the exhilarating joy and occasional heartache of singing.