Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Everyone that you encounter will arguably agree that as a music fan, the festival event is a particular experience that fills the mind and soul with something special, that no matter where, There’s A Place that sticks in the mind that nothing can ever replace,; a line-up that through the day, past the heat of the afternoon and long into the night’s blistering almost religious like fervour as the music roars, as the music leaves a shrine to your love and existence on this spinning ball.

It is not for the intimacy, that is left to the venues that always seem to be seen as the poor relation, despite them being the true birthplace of many a performer, but it is for the camaraderie, for the noise, for the sheer weight of humanity afforded a position of status in a field that gains everything for a time, including personal notoriety.

There is a love that cannot be denied when you hear a song that reminds you of that, maybe it was the moment when you saw Thrash Metal’s big four play at Milton Keynes, witnessing Keith Emerson at London’s Victoria Park alongside Greg Lake and Carl Palmer as they rocked in the residue of beauty supplied by all that came before them; for as Gareth Heesom’s latest single proclaims with absolute reason and joy, There’s A Place which in your mind rivals all, that one spot where you saw the most wonderful of sets and bands, and which rivals anyplace on Earth.

The message is devastatingly simple, but it homes in on all those memories that you tuck away, the moment of sheer understanding and bliss which elevates the day beyond compare.

There’s A Place, there is a time, and the lyrical deftness that Mr. Heesom majestically plays with draws the connection between time and tune with a status of its own; and a track that you know, that you feel not only comes from the heart, it implores you to understand that the stranger in the field next to you is feeling the exact same sentiment.

A song that is as light as the air you breathe, but which is heavy in its dominance as you could hope for as the sound of a 100,000 people sing along with your heart.

Ian D. Hall