Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There is a shiver of meaningful cool that comes from listening to an artist to whom you understand observes more than just the casual and the surface noise of life, the ones who are prepared to delve deeper, seek further clarification, open wounds and watch the blood flow, for they are the ones who open the listeners’ minds and cause them to think, to pay attention, to leave a mark on the abused heart that is indelibly stamped.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
History always seems to be made when the fan and keen lover of music consider deeply a band’s choice of setting for a gig, for a concert that stands out for its geographical position, its more unusual location. Whilst many attend a night with their favourite groups or singers and are content to be sat in the splendour of the ornate and the predictable spaces, there is something to be said for a concert that doesn’t take place in a music hall, or everyday venue; and it is to the imagination of the greats that we learn that perhaps the historical emptiness of Pompeii is cool, but set against the Venice waterfront is exquisite.
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Blues has not just reinvented itself; it has in many respects re-established itself as defining expression of culture.
It doesn’t feel that long ago that the Blues was on its knees, almost terminal, dying with its heart ripped out and its soul kept alive by a dedicated few to whom the fans and admirers must always be grateful to; then the 21st Century appeared, hope seemed to rise from the depths, and now two and half decades on, the genre is stronger than ever, and as their new album arrives, The Blues Overdrive bring a sense of definition to the arena with a sound that is upbeat, materially fascinating, and a beat that captures the imagination fully.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
In The Past, it’s where we store the emotions and feelings that did us harm, that caused us to understand the nature of pain in ways that we fear will resurface and prove to us that we accept the tenderness of grief and the sting of self-reflection. We should never shy from the doors that lead us to the past, we should fear nothing from those wounds, for they teach us nothing short of the constancy in freedom in expressing beauty for that which hurt us.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
We fear that which holds our shape but not our image when we are younger; even in adulthood we perhaps feel an unnerving comfort when we stand underneath a streetlight or pass by the reflected light of the moon above us, for in those Shadows there is a weightless buoyancy, a tether, not to Earth but to a realm where the rules are inverted, where life is given a different edge, one hopeful of softness, or a rougher edge in which the connection is cut loose and the spirit beside us set free.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are names that will undoubtedly live on long after the generation that was inspired by their ideas and steel eyed vision have moved on, left the stage and the auditoriums, taken their six strings and their t-shirts, and packed away their albums in boxes labelled legend; these names will live on because of fables, myths, truisms, and vitally the sincerity of the performance captured for eternity…after all some names are never meant to disappear from view, they are meant to enthral and educate for all time.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Whilst Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado don’t perform in Britain all that often, their name has carried across the North Sea by the winds of fortune and the acclaim of those on the European continent who venture past the shores of the land of Hans Christian Andersen, Lars Ulrich, Niels Bohr, and Karen Blixen, and it is a name that carries with it a sense of opportunity to revel in some of the best Blues/Roots/Rock music to ever come out of the country and which transfers beautifully across all scopes of language.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Time is such that we protect ourselves by allowing certain memories to not only fade, but become extinct, be removed completely, and without mercy just so can live a little easier with the consequences of actions that took place. We do this not out of shame, but out of a kind of compassion to our soul.
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There is always a proof that a fan or follower of a band will eventually succumb to the temptation of owning everything that is released just to feel the thrill of being seen as a completist; even if it means holding in their hands yet another compilation album that is released, and which aside from the sound never forgotten, offers insufficient observation in the way of reveal, and is instead is an obvious repackage to draw in new listeners.
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So successful an album was Three Sides Live that those who seek to hear the songs of Genesis in their rawest form, away from the polish of the studio, stood in front of thousands of fans in venues spanning the globe, that any gig that was recorded at the time would arguably be met with the same sense of urgency, of informing those unable at the time to attend what became a legendary gig, or hadn’t been able to catch the likely live broadcast by whichever radio station had gained the rights to transmit, would be soon enjoyed in the comfort of the home and with the lights down, and imagination allowed to be precise, be heard in an almost technicolour aural dream.