Karine Polwart - 1/11/2018

I knew almost nothing about Karine before this gig - I had just heard a couple of songs I liked and at the same time the gig came up so I bought some tickets. She was great; she had me at song one. That was a long but brilliantly witty diatribe against Trump with lots of musical variation in the song. Thereafter she was more a traditional Scottish singer/songwriter with folky roots. The band included her brother on guitar and Inge Thompson on Accordion and drums and percussion and backing vocals. Karine played a Squeezebox and a guitar. She did a couple of covers - a great song by Frightened Rabbit which I didn't know and late on a version of 'Video Killed the Radio Star' which was much much better than the original. Various tracks from her new album such as 'Cornerstones', 'I Burn but I am not Consumed' and 'Suitcase' persuaded me to get the album and the whole gig was interesting, enjoyable and quality stuff. I very much enjoyed Inge's one solo track which involved drum and vocal loops.