If New York is the city that never sleeps then Liverpool is the city that never stops singing. To anyone who makes their way to any of the sheer multitude of venues, be it the dominant on the skyline such as the Echo Arena and first opened in full to the public and many a big band and big noise experience in the year that Liverpool was rightly emblazoned with the moniker of Capital of Culture throughout every event, to the small but significant and certainly homely such as Studio 2, Zanzibar and Leaf, to anyone making their way to Liverpool, not only is there a great set of venues to choose from but the music, home grown and much admired, steeped in history and more arguably more satisfying than anywhere in such close concentration in the country, is to be admired.