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Fuelled with passion and tears, Camille begins her award winning show at Brighton Festival 2006. The winner of the Brighton Festival 2005 Best Music Award, Camille’s show is as much a theatrical performance as it is musical. Purring like a cat and roaring like a drunk, the raven-haired red-lipped vixen admits that half the time she feels ‘a bit mad’ while up on stage. Swigging from a bottle of red wine shared with bandmates, it is clear from the start that Camille is outgoing, gorgeous, and extravagant. She wows the crowd with her congeniality and has a voice like a slice of heaven. | "The grand opening night of Camille O’Sullivan’s bordello themed cabaret was a rollicking success." | | Caroline Puttock |
The slow sultry serenade that began the show is quickly replaced with an eruption of music and a powerful crescendo in the next song called, The Devil’s Workshop. Her repertoire for the night included songs penned by Jacques Brel, Tom Waits and Johnny Cash. With a smoky blue backdrop, five men dressed in black and armed with an array of musical instruments supplied the eclectic beats that so compliment the singer’s angelic, bawdy, bordello themed show. Originally from Cork, Camille’s father is Irish and her mother French; Camille was introduced to French singers at an early age. She skilfully combines Irish storytelling with dramatic French flare, sharing anecdotes of her life. Confessing to emotions running high, her misty-eyed performance of No Hands brought several members of the audience to tears. Other songs evoked memories of first love giddiness and the chanteuse regularly had the crowd blushing. Camille’s cabaret show is as unpredictable as the singer herself. It is all very exciting, not knowing where Camille will saunter off to next in the carnival surroundings and heaving mirrored walls of The Spiegeltent. Up to her mischief Camille approaches audience members with a twinkle in her eye and carrying a red sequinned pillow she adroitly sprawls herself across their laps. Fetchingly beautiful; her charms are irresistible. The grand opening night of Camille O’Sullivan’s bordello themed cabaret was a rollicking success. Sauntering out the same way she came in, a captivated audience recognises the true appeal of this diva and no one in the crowd was left wondering, ‘is that all?’
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