Photo by Simeon Johnson ANNA CALVI The Factory Theatre, June 16 Look up scorched earth in the dictionary and if there isn’t a picture of the stunned-and-yet-thrilled faces of The Factory audience from this night, get a new dictionary. Holy Mary mother of god, that was … something else. Fiery in delivery – howled and hurled at us; overwhelming in its impact – physical recoil followed by an eager leaning hard into it again; devastating in its affect – emotions roiled, bodies ti

Singer, guitarist, songwriter, Anna Calvi released her new album, Hunter, last week, dealing frankly with the boundary between reality and performance, desire and action. (Read my review HERE) It’s not come from out of the blue, as Wind Back Wednesday reminds. Five years ago, in a pokey London rehearsal space, she talked control, fear, suicide and why there’s a spell she won’t break between songs on stage. USING YOUR INSIDE VOICE Anna Calvi is one of the most exciting live pe

ANNA CALVI Hunter (Domino) Dominant and submissive, giver and taker, stronger and weaker, desired and desirer, acceptor and disruptor, me and you, male and female. “I’ll be the boy, you be the girl/I’ll be the girl, you be the boy.” Getting the message? Don’t come to Anna Calvi with anything fixed in your mind except openness because there’s virtually no door closed here – unless she’s closed it on you, done with it for now – and the fluidity is in everything. And that begins