Alice Armstrong

Alice Armstrong plays The Factory Live on Sunday 15 November, starting at 6:45 pm. She's a multi-award nominated singer-songwriter and entertainer from Guildford, Surrey, and this is her only act on the bill.

Armstrong is known for a vocal range that covers a lot of ground, and her songwriting follows suit. The songs shift across a wide emotional scale, and that's why they've found a home on BBC Radio 2 and on Joe Bonamassa's Spotify playlists. While she's a regular in the UK blues community, her work pulls from soul, blues, funk, rock and jazz, and she describes her own writing as personal and provocative. The whole thing is delivered with a stage presence that draws comparisons to the music legends of the 1960s and 1970s.

The critics have been quite specific about what they hear. Blues Matters Magazine called her one of the most emotional and far-ranging vocals they've come across, and Blues in Britain Magazine went as far as to call it perfection. Between those two, you get the gist of it: a voice that can stretch from one end of a song to the other without losing its grip.

It's a Sunday evening show at The Factory Live, 9 Ivy Arch Rd, Worthing BN14 8BX, with tickets from £15.40.