“…Even after accommodating Walsh’s grand piano and a podium for the string quartet the stage looked spacious. The Cadogan’s acoustics were perfect and filled to its 950 capacity it was the ideal setting for an evening of musical engrossment. And how that was rewarded. Peters pulled no punches with her opener ‘When All You Got is a Hammer’, a deeply moving picture of the damage wrought on the family of those from war. The band gave a sense of restlessness to the opening of ‘Disappearing Act’ so, “Good things come, good things go/ If it lifts you up it will lay you low” came as little surprise. Also from the latest record was ‘Wichita’, a brooding, menacing song Peters tells as its principal character, a ‘little kid’…”

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