Ellenberg at the Liverpool Loves Festival 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Into each day something new must arise, something to find that the pleasure of being alive is as valued as it is sought after. With the advent of a new three day festival in which the city has taken to its heart, it was only quite right that one of the very latest and indeed hottest bands should make an appearance at the Pier Head as part of Liverpool Loves.

In Ellenberg the spirit of the rambunctious, of the sincerely entertaining and the forthright out and out devastatingly candid cool is personified and gives new breath to the worldly wise and those who spare so much time in search of a new sound to take home. It is in this spirit that a band in the guise of just a couple of performances can turn so many heads and leave those who saw them take part in Liverpool loves just what else they can achieve if the spirit continues to be willing and the groove enthusiastic and clean.

It is in the spirit of the new that the smile of intrigue can arise, in which agreeable phantoms leave their mark and into which the sun, which had reached its zenith, slowly caught on that it was not the biggest attraction in Liverpool minds that day.

For Richard Turvey, Liam Day, Joseph Barenskie and Daniel Ellenberg, this was not only a moment of proof that their captivating sound could appeal to a broad spectrum of people as the throngs of Liverpool people took in the delights of the Pier Head, this was a chance to really groove, to enjoy themselves on the biggest stage yet and it was a chance they took more willingly than boy hood lover of boats and all things maritime being offered the opportunity to guide the Loch Ness ferry into its dock side retreat.

Although the set was short, what it lacked in time it more than made up for in its delivery and purpose and the tracks Platonic, Shall I Come In, Moving On and City’s Between Us, the groove was placed and the future of a very good young band was set down.

There is no doubting Liverpool Loves its young Merseyside music, in Ellenberg there is a new name to join others in that passionate embrace and amore.

Ian D. Hall