from the Independent on Sunday

"Roxy Rawson knows how to bewitch a crowd. The classically- trained musician has been bringing her unique blend of impish violin vocals to the London gig scene for a few years. Her music is beautifully peculiar; a sweet mix of classical notes and frenzied, catch-me-if-you-can lyrics interspersed with bursts of laughter. She doesn't take herself too seriously and is original to the point of raising eyebrows; she'll pluck the violin and substitute pens for her bow. Rawson's punky fairytale music - billed as edgy anti-folk with a violin - is fabulous on its own, but recent gigs with William Nein, who writes "folk songs about people without heads who get asked if they'd like another cup of tea" have provided Rawson with a platform.

So what next? "I want to learn complex dirty jazz," she says, inspired by the smoky jazz bars of Paris, where she studied. With tracks such as "Riddle It", "Macavity", "Philanthropy" and the magical, straight out of a fairytale "I robbed a cook", comparisons to the likes of Joanna Newsom and Regina Spektor are beginning to emerge.

With each show, the applause gets louder and her name gets bigger."