Live Box: Gemma Weekes Hot

TEST An author, a singer, a compulsive poet, a permanently budding guitarist and all-round scribbler whose debut novel, Love Me (Chatto & Windus, January 2009) has been greeted with splendiferous reviews in the Guardian ('a delight'), the Telegraph ('hits you where you feel it most') and the Independent ('a wonderfully assured debut') and has so far been translated into Dutch and Italian. She's performed and devised pieces for venues all over the UK and abroad: including The Jazz Café " - where she appeared with Cody ChesnuTT supporting the Black-Eyed Peas" - the Southbank Centre, Stratford East Theatre Royal, The Royal Festival Hall, the Albany, the Poetry cafe and at local dives too numerous to mention.