KIKI Dee signed her first recording contract in 1963 when she was 17 years old. I’ll leave you to do the maths; but hey, she looks good. I hardly dared hope that she’d be wearing those off-the-shoulder pink dungarees that she wore on the chart-topping Don’t Go Breaking my Heart video with Elton John in 1976. Now, there’s a gentleness about her, she’s delighfully slim, her hair a beautiful silky shade of sandy red and she looked great in a lovely silk kimono top, black jeans and black suede, heeled ankle boots.

Of course, this is a duo -–a double act with Kiki’s long time music partner Carmelo Luggeri. He’s good, very good; maybe even a little too good. He’s got all the bells and whistles and loops and gizmos that he operates with an ever-tapping foot. There are shades of Carlos Santana, John Lee Hooker, Hendrix and even Hank Marvin comes through. The trouble is, all that gorgeous guitar playing eclipsed, what for me was, the main event.

I wanted, most of all, to hear Kiki Dee sing – new stuff, old stuff, great stuff – like the truly beautiful Loving and Free from 76 and her incredibly romantic masterpiece, Amoureuse to mention just a couple of the awesome contributions this amazing lady made to British pop music.

She did do all of the above, some of which I could hear (only just) but even with one finger in my ear she disappeared every time into a Luggeri solo for guitar. Disappointing!

Helen Brown