Welcome to Violaville – a virtual carnival of creativity! Viola VV Fox is an alter ego for the sadness we contain because rhymes, art and music both soothe and entertain 🎶 🎭 contains strong language.

Songs

Plinky plonky whimsical piano.

River Blue
_{Crying on the shoulder of a man I barely know, a little cave in town, the walls they roll, we shared it all, I laid me bare, I drank away my world again, down in Corbiers.}

_{Performed at Nook, Heaton Moor}

Hurt me, Baby

_{It's always easier when you're a d***, I take the high road, you take the stick, but I messed it up in many ways, we will never know, this I can't repair, we can never let it go.}

Whiskey 
_{Drip drip drop falling from my eye, colours drain from the sky, I'll get by without you, with whiskey in my lemonade, the dough I don't get paid, I'll get by without you.}

Call the Mistress
_{There's a bench and a timeslip on the old village green, four boys and a defibrillator cause a scene, there's a river by the bookies, a cottage by the pub, a latex-laden mistress at the willow weaving club. Whip, whip, whip.}

_{Performed at The Art of Tea, Didsbury. Introduced by the super talented Emily Mercer.}

When I Grow up

_{When I grow up, I will lose my dignity in the halls of an underfunded university, in the hope it will make something of me, who the hell am I?, who will I grow up to be?}

_{He Loved me
The years sailed, we took a plane, from the north of England to the south of Spain, with an ache I've always had, I longed for him to love me back, but we argued in the sunset, wearing bucket hats.

Performed at The Art of Tea, Didsbury}

_{How'd you hold up at night? Reading books with paper pages by the bedside light, what an evening without stress, ah f***, I think we're blessed.

Performed at Nook, Heaton Moor.}

He Needs me
_{Me oh my, this heart of mine, how can I forgive myself for being oh so blind? ...I've come to learn that only I can rescue me.}

_{The clockwork riddle
I wrote and recorded this riddle for a steampunk clockwork inspired performance. This was my first time performing at a burlesque show. Credit to Lady Wildflower for producing the showcase at The Empty Space, Media City. Video credit to Kezly_Creative.}

_{Welcome to the Circus}
_{A visual poem I wrote and edited (with the help of a granny-inspired AI voice from Tik-Tok!)}

Burlesque

“A type of writing or acting that tries to make something serious seem stupid or funny” – Cambridge English Dictionary

“Burlesque acts address adult subjects or themes by theatrically reducing them to their essence, challenging the audience to join in celebrating their absurdity” – Torchy Taboo (Burlesque Handbook by Headmistress Jo Weldon)

“An artistic work, esp. literary or dramatic, satirizing a subject by caricaturing it” – the Viola VV Fox dictionary that opens at f*** (Collins) https://thelifecrisis.com/2025/02/28/the-dictionary/