Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Art is not just one being, a creature of delight we must keep feeding, it is a multitude, a series of symbiotic meanings which require constant nourishment, perhaps even the souls of those who dream, those who Love At Night, for Art is a beast, and a lover, it is generous, willing, giving, it also finds ways to leave you during the darkness, alone, frightened and searching for meaning amongst the pictures you see merging as one form melds with another, in beauty, in collaboration, in strength.

For those who see the Moon as a more romantic fixture in the sky than the heat supplied by the Sun, Love At Night is understandable, and yet it is the collaboration that the two celestial bodies enjoy which marks them out as sincere, as embracing the symbiotic meaning to which we all see in the image of the largest reflection of light, the merging and inspiration of Art in our souls.

Taking the inspiration from the artist Remi LaBarre, Liverpool’s Gareth Heesom’s brilliant single Love At Night is one that captures the attention of Art. Whilst it can be a solo pursuit when placed in a room with just the chosen weapon of employment for company, those unaccompanied notes that linger in the air and bounce through the mind, ricocheting off one motion and onto the next as quickly as a beam of light can blind, they have to come from somewhere, they have to be acknowledged as being a pair; and Love At Night, and its artistically adjoining, fruitful video, is proof enough of that particular truth.

Gareth Heesom never fails to entertain, to bring his performance to the light, and yet in Love At Night, what he has achieved is extraordinary, an illumination driven by observing another’s art, producing what can only be described as a gentle, expressive thought caught in the rays of the celebration of symbiosis.

Ian D. Hall