Boothby Graffoe &
The Following People
Pleasance One

Silly songs and surreal ramblings are Boothby Graffoe's stock-in-trade and there is plenty of weirdness here. This year complete with a three piece backing band, The Following People, his songs are leant a little more gravitas and orchestrating some of his daft songs is amusing in itself. Imaginative songs about pet polar bears and baseball-playing spiders are interspersed with journeys through Boothby's parallel universe where it seems anything can happen and unusually does. In this relaxed atmosphere he makes the cavernous Pleasance One seem like an intimate little jazz club with comedy an added bonus, occasionally having animated conversations with his fingers and even giving each one a different accent and character. Boothby is living testament that sometimes good things can happen when you listen to the voices in your head.

Talk to the hand.