Two large chandeliers now grace the ceiling of the former Zap Club, dimmed tonight to cast a suitably moody glow over the enthusiastic audience assembled for this performance by Dominique Noiret's dark country/rockabilly outfit.
She Said! are a band from another time, exuding a music and style apparently unaffected by anything from the last 50 years.
It's if Noiret and her companions have been airlifted to Brighton from a bygone age and a different place - the America of Elvis' youth, when Scotty Moore's guitars reverberated around Sun Studios and queens of country music like Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn first arose to claim their crowns.
Noiret is inheritor to their romantic spirit and she was queen of all she surveyed this evening.
Her hypnotic gaze and lugubrious voice cast shadowy magic all around as she summoned her timeless songs of heartbreak and loss to the toe-tapping twang.
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