Well, just listen to this then by clicking the link to the "listen again" gadget ... start at 8½ minutes in to get the atmosphere of the thing ... you will be pretty impressed ...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082xc0c
A bit of "research" showed that she has a lot of form in the singing line ..... and Cerys Matthews was a perfect choice for her judging by this account of one of her shows ...
Pippa Evans: how I invented sozzled singer-songwriter Loretta Maine
Bits of Courtney Love, Alanis Morissette and the deepest, darkest thoughts of yours truly are all sloshing about inside my needy alter ego
Loretta Maine is essentially, myself at 21 mixed in with a dash of Courtney Love, Alanis Morissette and a few people I have met along the way (people for whom a klaxon sounded *AVOID AVOID*, but who I hung about with for a bit of chaos-intrigue). Loretta is a singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon who is generally angry with the unfairness of the world and deals with her pain by getting drunk and singing/shouting about it.
Her album title, I'm Not Drunk, I Just Need to Talk to You, is a sentence that I think we have all uttered at least once in our lives. Loretta is all of us at our worst – desperate to be loved, but impossible to love. Wine was never meant to be served in pints, and Loretta drinks it by the gallon.
Here's Cerys doing it ....