An astonishingly mature and accomplished début. Intelligent, poetic songs and wonderfully colourful arrangements
The Jazz Man
‘Houdini of the Heart’ an Atzmon co-composition, could have emerged from a work by Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill.
All About Jazz
‘A major new singer songwriter…Sarah Gillespie is one of the most individual yet recognizable voices to emerge in some time.’
All About Jazz
‘Sarah Gillespie’s album Stalking Juliet is brilliant. Sarah Gillespie live is like being in the presence of a nuclear furnace. And so it was on this first night of the Jazza Festival. The heat emanating from the Scala stage was completely overpowering. Gillespie’s voice has more balls than a lot of men, and her stage presence is palpable.’
Rainlore’s World of Music
“Lyrically full of sly observations and witty put-downs, and sung in a powerful bluesy howl yet full of intimate conversations asides…Gillespie looked every bit the arty, quirky and ironic author of her songs.”
Norwich Evening News
