Katy Moffatt
Katy M at the Black Swan folk club this time – stretching “folk” a bit maybe, more country I would have said – but she has a vigorous delivery, pays a mean guitar that sounds like it’s a bass (some musician will know the technical term for that) and looks like Piaf might have looked at her age if it wasn’t for the booze and the drugs and the other nasties. Like most country singers, Katy’s dog hadn’t come home from the movies, which makes for a jolly evening of train wrecks, car smashes and marital infidelity. The last number in the second set though (before encores) was “The Highwayman” (Phil Ochs out of Alfred Noyes). It’s such a wonderful song, so full of evocative images, a beautiful tune, and for me, lots of memories of evenings with friends at University – a few years ago now (over 30). Katy sang it beautifully.