Jess is one of the world’s greatest impersonators, and her speciality of mimicking singers from the likes of Billie Holiday from the past to Adele in the present is out of the top drawer. She works an audience so well from the moment they queue up outside to interacting with them before the show, so immediately they are on her side, which is a clever touch and one that thrilled the audience.
The quality of her impressions were spot on and the energy in the show was impressive. The idea of the show is a fun one – she loves Elton John and she rattles through plenty of his hits but as different female vocalists from Streisand to Spears and even throwing in a bit of Lorraine Kelly and Cerys Matthews from Catatonia along the way.
Nothing phased her at all, her Kate Bush was better than Kate Bush herself and if she ever wants to do a one-off of Kate’s music the world is crying out for her to do so. I remember back in the day when Freddie Starr put on a few Elvis shows and played it straight and it was a side project that went down incredibly well.
That might not be what Jess is looking at but this is a lady who oozes fun from every pore and puts on a dynamic show. Just one negative – there were a lot of kids in the audience and despite no age warnings on the advertising her language was quite fruity at times unexpectedly, but other than that it’s five stars all the way.
