Satin Beige at the Liverpool Loves Festival. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In such a short time Satin Beige has become one of those performers in Liverpool that you look up to with huge respect and the abiding knowledge that all is well in the world. For whilst this woman can sing and play cello with the passion reserved for the angry, the displaced and the brave, then the world will surely keep turning and heeding her words of youthful wisdom.

As the afternoon sun started on its slow descent and sending cosmic winds of warmth and life giving substance to the city that straddles the Mersey, Satin Beige took both guitar and cello on a trip round the assembled audience on the Dovedale Social Stage at the Pier Head and showed once more why people have been whispering nothing but good fortune and best wishes about the recently graduated L.I.P.A student.

For those making the most of the August sunshine and the more than suitable weather, the five songs performed by Satin Beige as she warmed and limbered up the bow and the finger were of exquisite quality and if proof her talent, a graciously given gift that has seen her already take Leaf on Bold Street by storm this year, were needed then these songs, these passages of remarkable insight were more than enough to satisfy the down hearted and the cynically repressed.

The set opener, Social Media Anxiety was more than the perfect start to the afternoon on the Dovedale Social Stage and the lyrical imagery of a society that has become obsessed with the idea of always being in touch, of being contactable for every minute of the long and tiring day, has turned many into the kind of Zombie that George A. Romero would have loved to have envisaged in Day of the Dead. However, it is not the lack of communication that has done this but the very real and profound effect that too much communication and not enough physical interaction has placed upon the world.

With the songs Kije Song, Love Drunk, Addicted and the fantastic Being Me being played to the Liverpool open air audience, this was arguably Satin Beige’s biggest moment yet and it was a moment to behold for all its worth.

Satin Beige continues to impress greatly and with absolute purpose.

Ian D. Hall