Beth Jeans Houghton: 'There's more to me than wigs'

The singer-songwriter talks about her precocious talent, 'bloody folk' music – and why she writes in symbols and coloursOutside, London is melting in early-autumn heat, but inside a sweltering office above the Lexington pub in Angel I'm playing the faintly laborious game of guessing what Beth Jeans Houghton is going to wear for tonight's gig. Three guesses and I hit gold. As someone used to performing in grotesque wigs, nude bras and shiny lamé, the giant tiger suit she clambers into isn't ex...

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