Music has long been an outlet for emotional pain, self examination or working-stuff-out and in Oxford at least Tamara Parsons-Baker has few equals at doing all those in song form.

Music has long been an outlet for emotional pain, self examination or working-stuff-out and in Oxford at least Tamara Parsons-Baker has few equals at doing all those in song form.

Tamara’s musical output continues to be a triumph: often bleak, always beautiful songs full of emotional honesty that continue to mark her out as a genuine star to rank alongside the very best Oxford has to offer.

Sung with a voice as hard and pure as cut diamond. A gem and no mistake.

If Covid has deprived us of last year’s chart toppers Death of the Maiden this year, it’s given us bandleader Tamara’s solo songs.

What a voice and, above all, what sound to give to our thoughts that wander in this foreign space