Faye Treacy Brings 'The Problem With Faye Treacy' to Edinburgh

When asked by her little sister for some career advice, Faye realised she'd spent the last half of her 20s trying to make trombone comedy work. Upon further reflection, Faye wondered what was it about her past that has today made her want to take an instrument more synonymous in jazz cafes than a ramshackle room in Edinburgh for a month? Was it to rebel against her punk rock father, just to be heard in house shared with multiple siblings because her mother wanted to outdo Madonna?

Not being noticed was a theme throughout her childhood so much so her school teachers failed to realise she couldn't read till she was 8! When her Head Teacher told her she'd be too stupid to learn how to read music, it lit a fire in Faye's stomach. A fire that no one was going to take the opportunity to learn music away from her as she'd seen Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and even if she wasn't going to choose to communicate through song, she'd already worked out the power of music by making her profoundly disabled foster sister laugh with her Animal impressions at the drums. It turned out, however, Faye had a talent, achieving her Grade 8 trombone within 3 years and therefore opening the doors to social mobility to a world much wider than Croydon. Join Faye for an idiosyncratic underscored tale about how she came from a working class South London foster family to being the only girl in a male dominated orchestra, where some behaviours are as dated as the instruments, in this debut hour that hits all the right notes. A one woman Brassed Off meets Mozart In The Jungle, via Croydon.

Just The Tonic
Mash House, Cask Room
37 Guthrie Street
EH1 1JQ
19:45 (1 hour show)
1st -27th August 2018 (not 13th)
£5 reserve or PWYW