Girl Talk

Saturday 18th February, Tickets £12, Doors 7pm, Performance 9.00pm (2 sets, approx finish 11.30pm)

​Girl Talk - making their way to London's best live jazz venue Hideaway! 

Mari Wilson - Vocals
Barb Jungr - Vocals
Gwyneth Herbert - Vocals
Alastair Gavin - Piano

Following the long running success of the original Girl Talk, top British singers Barb Jungr and Mari Wilson are joined by cool and quirky Gwyneth Herbert in harmony, hairdos and heavenly voices.
With songs from Bacharach to the B52’s, Bowie to Rogers and Hammerstein, Dolly Parton and more...
Mad Pop to Sublime Ballads, Hairspray and Mascara, Sex and Seduction, Love and Kitchen equipment combine in this hysterical, fabulously sung show performed by Britain’s best dressed divas.

Mari Wilson

Mari has also written a one-woman musical – The Love Thing. It was writing the songs for this musical that led to Mari’s latest album Emotional Glamour – featuring ten original songs, this album marks a return to the retro-pop she is the true queen of.
In November 2010, The Love Thing debuted in London selling out for five nights to standing ovations at The Leicester Square Theatre. 2011 will see The Love Thing being developed further for a longer run and a national tour.
Mari has always been known for her live stage shows and her latest successful UK tour was true to form, a mix of hits old and new, unusual and unexpected covers and a myriad of glamorous costume changes. Combined with Mari’s storytelling and wit she still stands as one of the best live performers in the country.

Gwyneth Herbert

Gwyneth Herbert is an artist who continues to redefine (and defy) our expectations. A singer-songwriter with one foot in the jazz world and one somewhere in the future, with pierrot-dotted eyes, polka-spotted shoes and swanny whistle in hand she may appear as whimsical as a Bonzo Dog, but writes beautiful melodies and has a poet’s grasp of the world around her. Her song-writing has been compared to Lennon and McCartney, Ray Davies and Janis Ian, while musically her influences range from the junk yard clunk of Tom Waits to the Brechtian punk of the Dresden Dolls and from the minimalism of Steve Reich’ to the banging drum ‘n’ bass of Hackney’s pirate stations.
In just the last few months Herbert has won two prestigious theatrical awards, had them queuing around the block at the Rochester Jazz Festival in New York (where her show was in the top ten out of over two hundred), seen her cover of Neil Young’s ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart’ used in a Hollywood ‘rom com’, appeared at Wilton’s Music Hall alongside Sian Phillips and Marc Almond, written a song-cycle about the sea to debut in Aldeburgh this autumn, sung a series of 18th Century murder ballads on Radio 4, and composed and performed a specially commissioned soundtrack to silent film The Patsy at the BFI. But while this breathtaking range of activities reveals Herbert to be very much a 21st century artist able to draw on a formidable range of talents, she remains at the very heart of it all a storyteller with a fine ear for a catchy hook, as her latest single, the charming Perfect Fit amply demonstrates.
Perfect Fit is also at the heart of Herbert’s forthcoming release, Clangers & Mash, a mini-album that draws on the many sides of her musical world from stripped back ukulele strums through recent classics to dark-hearted remixes that present her work in a brand new light.

Barb Jungr

Born and raised Rochdale and Stockport, Barb has worked with many of the finest musicians and composers in the UK (including Mark Anthony Turnage who wrote ‘About Water’ for her to sing at the re-opening of The South Bank with the London Symphonietta), has toured all over the world with the British Council in the 1990s (Malawi, Cameroon, Yemen, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Cote D'Ivoire, Sudan), appeared in Australia (2006, 2007 and a sellout tour in 2010), toured across Norway and Holland and performs regularly in New York and across the United States (several seasons at The Cafe Carlyle and Metropolitan Room and Joe’s Pub, New York, Catalina’s in LA, Rrazz Room in San Francisco and for Austin Cabaret).
As a writer and lyricist, Barb’s credits include The Jungle Book (Birmingham Stage Company), The Fabulous Flutterbys (The Little Angel Theatre), Cinderella, Beauty and The Beast and Dick Whittington for The Newbury Corn Exchange, and Mabel Stark Tiger Tamer currently in development for Northampton Royal and Derngate.