Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Girl With No Name is one that keeps her secrets close, her friends in doubt and those intrigued by her presence, undeterred in wanting to know and understand her fully, and without prejudice.

Following on from his excellent last single, I’ll Sail Away, Jon Meadows returns to the forefront of the Liverpool music thought with the release of a song that is not only electrically charged, but makes the mind relish the exercise it endures as it turns cartwheels, jumps to attention, and come alive to the hum that emanates from the soul of the artist and explodes the heart of the listener, completely.

The burst of electric is welcome, the initial spark of energy that perhaps has been missing from the collected array of songs that the world has heard being released during 2020, a roar of defiance, a passioned imploring that the voice of our selves must not be allowed to fade away, to become silent.

It is in anger that the song hits home, absolutely and firmly political, the fury of the piece not only sits at the heart of the wrongs of society, but also lambasts them, the song of a nameless girl but to who is each one of us, one bad day away from everything in life being taken from us; the fight no longer the point, the memory soured and living up to the idea of the generation of musicians that rallied against the inequality of the times, of the politically inflicted motivation against the poorer and more vulnerable members of our society.

A cracking single, one of frankness and in which The Girl With No Name has a champion in her corner.

Ian D. Hall