Press Cuttings

Lorraine's latest review from "The Cornishman" 26th February 2004
"...went down a storm with the audience at The Acorn Theatre, Penzance"

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The kitsch-in-sync Casio Queen of London

Known as "The Queen of Casio", Lorraine performs with high voltage energy all her own material; high camp eccentric comedy and loveable, unforgettable songs in a dazzling array of exotic costume changes, playing the keyboard with every available part of her anatomy!

Live, she has appeared at many festivals and clubs all over the world from pizza parlours in Italy to comedy festivals in Canada. Her TV appearances include BBC2's The Ozone, Channel Four's The Divine David Show, Big Breakfast and many "bits" on the Canadian/US TV network.

"The Doris Day for the millennium" Time Out

"Mary Poppins on acid" Italian press

"Bowen makes the trash transcendent. She is part drag queen, part Petula Clark and totally herself" Georgia Strait/Vancouver

Record Collector March 2002

THE LORRAINE BOWEN EXPERIENCE
Oh! What A Star!
Spanish import Siesta 142 (53:13)

With songs about Julie Christie, cups of tea in bed, Sunday afternoon sex, matching bikes, and cooking crumbles, we are in the very particular place inhabited by Ms. Bowen. It's a relaxing world of bedsits and whimsy, musically rooted in artists like Millicent Martin and Blossom Dearie, where intelligent and wry lyrics lead the songs.
Playing most of her own instrumentation, Lorraine, whose history includes Dinner Ladies and Billy Bragg, weaves a gentle magic that fits perfectly alongside Siesta's other issues of soft rock and lounge music. A thoroughly delightful outing that will make you smile with recognition. Bet she's got a matching set of bakelite mugs, too.

Kingsley Abbott

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The Georgia Straight July 1998
Vancouver Comedy Festival - Women In Comedy

Manchester City Life Magazine

The adorable Lorraine Bowen has been playing havoc with our fragile hearts of both sexes ever since she was a Dinner Lady (Hannibal recording artists, of These Knees Have Seen the World fame). My own thralldom dates from an evening in the Samuel Pepys pub., Hackney, a few years ago, where Lorraine entertained in an upstairs room. The pheromones involuntarily responded (whose would not?) to the sight of Lorraine draped provocatively in bedroom linen, crooning "Join me in my wincyette sheet, where heaven and hell meet". Bowen has been astutely described as a combination of Madonna and Joyce Grenfell, a recognition that kinky rapacity and winsome charm are not self cancelling qualities. And Bowen has an advantage over both these women of mark - she happens to inhabit the real world. Her songs speak of the pleasures, contradictions and frustrations of our 'modern way of living'; of consumption, be it material (over-spending in the supermarket) , or culinary (junk food and spinach are extolled); womanly woes (a tune about big knickers is raucous enough to appeal to the leather-clad brigade); whilst being sensitive to the claims of fantasy and romance (the sublime 'Julie Christie' has bewitched every listener). Bowen embarks on a three-date mini-tour of the North West - 'Goes Granada' - this issue (see listings for details). Neither pure stand-up or pop, Bowen eludes easy classification. Call her, rather, the supreme product of her sex, a category of one (O'K)