On her album, The Shocking Miss Emerald, Caro is a mannered retroista; on stage, it dawns that there's a personality there, presiding with panache over the big-band flourishes and squawking tangos. Though she coyly directs attention to her eight-piece band, who are "really young, handsome men in suits, with saxophones" – the salsa-hop My 2 Cents was even written about the floppy-fringed guitarist, apparently – she's too cracking a singer to fade into the background.