I can't wait to see what she – and indeed, most of the excellent acts on these two shortlists – come up with next.
But it leaves us in dire need of a pick-me-up, mercifully provided by that great livewire Phil Nichol, one of only two excellent acts in a three-hour show.
It might have been the muddiest but the seventh Latitude festival was also the best, a fact already evident on Friday, with excellent acts from vintage must-sees to critics' favourites and fast-rising hipsters.
Mobile users, click here to view Irrespective of whether you see TV talent shows as cruel, exploitative and degrading, or cruel, exploitative and highly entertaining, there's little denying the format has produced some excellent acts.
An excellent live act, their current European tour runs until the end of the month.
We'd just go: 'I guess this is what we're gonna be watching …'" Today, the siblings are sweetness embodied: welcoming, funny, an excellent double act who complete each other's sentences.
In "An Apology for Poetry" (1595), Philip Sidney asks (rhetorically), "Who readeth Aeneas carrying old Anchises on his back that wisheth not it were his fortune to perform so excellent an act?" Delbanco recalls the effect the art historian Meyer Schapiro had on students "as he spoke about Cezanne"; they would say, "Whatever he's smoking, I'll have some".
This study aimed to describe the way excellent anaesthetists act in the operating theatre, as seen by experienced anaesthesia nurses.
The crowd, which slowly filtered in and tentatively received the excellent opening act, Sophistafunk, had to be cajoled forward through their self-imposed semi-circle force field keeping them from the stage.
He can't bring himself to impersonate a loving father and husband, but he does an excellent last-act job playing wife and daughter against each other.
