Online review by Consequence
Unfortunately, the bass boom returns for the title track of her new record, Time Travel, but help is at hand with the arrival onstage of former Soft Boy Robyn Hitchcock, resplendent in a paisley shirt and sporting a mop-top of graying hair. This is a cue for a lengthy digression, as Laurent-Marke gives a rambling account of how she knows Hitchcock, how she knows the band members, how they know each other. The audience laps this up but are maybe none the wiser at the end given the singer’s habit of straying off-mic to pick things up while delivering such asides. Hitchcock plays a sparkling, fluid guitar intro and delivers an assured vocal on one of his songs, the title of which was lost to me off-mic and then adds some brisk strumming on Alessi’s Ark tune “The Horse”.