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Rita Payne, Stories From a Suitcase. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Everybody has luggage, some more than most; however it is what you do with it that can define you. The belongings that you carted round with you ten years ago is not the same as you carry round today. The bags may be heavier, that could contain less you imagine when you learn to shed some of the skin that surrounds it and occasionally, just occasionally you might misplace one and let the label fall of and flutter away like a winter bird returning to more northern climes. Regardless of how much luggage you carry, the Stories From a Suitcase will always be there to remind you how far you have travelled.

Rita Payne, Gig Review. Atkinson Theatre, Southport.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Rita Payne, a band name so good there just had to be two musicians in there to fill the space and neither of them are called Rita. For Rhiannon Scutt and Pete Sowerby the last two years has been a big curve and the music they perform is not only enticing but also fulsome in its delivery and as they tour with new Folk heroes Gilmore and Roberts, the excitement they generate in the stories and playing is enough to convince all who made their way to The Atkinson in Southport that they had witnessed something very special and utterly adorable.