Eliza Doolittle: stage-school tyke of a bygone era, or postmodern prankster?

She sings songs based on first world war standards and shuns the X Factor. Meet the uncategorisable Eliza DoolittleEliza Doolittle is on stage at the London Palladium singing her song Missing, and the audience are, well, bemused doesn't convey the half of it. "I am Doolittle but I do a lot/ I try to do the best with what I've got," she pipes in a cockney mew, as her three-piece band – identically dressed in nerdy blue shirts and chinos – strum a tune based on the Fleetwoods' 1959 folk-pop hi...

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