"LOCAL QUEEN OF THE BLUES...Mave is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and blues harp player without equal" (Tim Hughes, Oxford Mail)............................. ...... "Maeve Bayton was well-known on the post-punk Oxford music scene as lead singer of The Mistakes and Jane Goes Shopping. She then went into hibernation in order to do research on women musicians which led to Frock Rock (Oxford University Press, 1998). She has now re-emerged with a bunch of songs which range from raunchy to poignantly sad, with some whimsical wit thrown in for good measure. Maeve mixes self-penned numbers with some relatively unknown traditional blues, combining a versatile voice of exceptional tone with guitar accompaniment and accomplished harmonica playing" (Cowley Road Festival)..................................................................................................
ALBUM - MAEVE: BLUES & BALLADS features a range of self-penned songs - wryly funny. sad, quirky & also blues from the 1920s, mainly by women such as Bessie Smith, Ida Cox and Bernice Edwards. ..........................................
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ALBUM REVIEWS: "No pretensions here, and all the better for it, this is beautifully composed and performed...sumptuous at its best" (Decode Mag).
"Tender and feisty songs from local Oxford singer" (The Inner Bookshop)........................"Love 'Inappropriate Boyfriend'" (Paul Young - yep THE Paul Young)..........................................................
GIG REVIEWS: "Our Maeve was raunchy, switching smoothly between harmonica and voice" (Blues in Britain)
"East Oxford's Queen of the Blues hits us with another set of personal favourites interspersed with quirky original insights that will wake up the brain cells." (Wittstock Festival)...........................................................
Maeve's set was as excellent as always - her voice is very sweet but this does not seem to reduce her range. She can go from 1928 to the present day, from the wistfully melancholic to the archly comic in a single bound...Maeve manages to hold the whole room rapt" (Matt Sewell)....................................
"Maeve was in great voice on both blues numbers and her own ballads about love's losses and misadventures...Her blues singing had a pleasing earthiness. Even better was how the precise phrasing of her own songs added to the purity of her voice and gave the songs a new tougher, darker emotional edge" (Colin May)
It is good to hear your voice here in Beijing, takes me back many years to Jane goes Shopping and later to Sunday sessions at the Cricketer's pub. Hope to catch you next time I am home.
hi, Maeve, how is it going? have you fully booked already all saturday of May at the Magic Caf? I'm planning to go in the first week, let me know if there's any chance of playing there for me. I have new stuff and I love the place!
Hi Maeve, good to meet you, thanks for the add. I hope your week is going well, and long may it continue that way. Best of luck with all your musical endeavours. Regards, Duncan.
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