Kirsty MacColl: Mean Fiddler, Harlesden, London

"SO THAT'S what you look like!" Kirsty MacColl exclaims, faced with an altogether too respectable crowd of 30 and 40-somethings, then launches into an eerie, sparse and spine-tingling version of 'Walking Down Madison'. For someone who seldom treads the boards, she sure knows the right devices to stoke up an audience. She can be cutting, sharp, witty, acerbic and always observes situations with a sharp eye for detail. If only she wasn't so bogged down in the boredom and the drudgery of the everyday, there could be a Nobel Prize yet.