Imelda May – review

Leeds Academy"Anybody wanna hear some rockabilly?" asks Imelda May. A year ago, this might have felt like an invitation to be covered in boiling oil, but May's emergence as a major star has rescued the idea of rockabilly from the tyranny of 1980s chart-toppers Matchbox and Shakin' Stevens. The singer's Top 10 Mayhem album seems even to be making 1950s styles cool, with teenage girls in the audience sporting variations on the Imelda look. Not that anyone could upstage the fabulously styled singer...

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