A bedraggled audience awaited Cathy with dripping, wind-swept mullets and clinging clothes after battling with the elements on a wet Sunday night in Southsea.

Conversations stopped and all eyes looked towards the stage as Cathy came on with her low slung guitar and launched into a dark and brooding song called Hammerhead

Cathy has an uncluttered, guitar-driven sound and remarkable soft voice which is somewhere between Cerys Matthews, Nina Persson (The Cardigans) and PJ Harvey.

Cathy Davey

Her voice might be soft enough to melt a pair of steel toecaps, but it hides the spiteful, twisted lyrics about love and hate which come out from her sometimes gritted teeth.

The tight and twitchy Clean and Neat was an attention grabber which got bodies moving with its repetitive guitar riff, stomping drum beat and gutsy vocals.

Swapping over to a black Fender Telecaster, a la Keith Richards Cathy's heckled by blokes from the audience shouting I Love You!, You Rock! and Will You Marry Me? to which she just shyly smiled.

Cold Man's Nightmare with its delicate but ballsy chorus sent a shiver down my spine before the summery, soaring Go Make It put a smile back on my face again.

Cathy finished her set off with the seductive Come Over- a pummeling rock track with tribal style drumming and high-pitched chorus which I'm sure set more than a few blokes hearts racing in the audience!

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