Tag Archives: Bootle

The Huyton Minstrel, Gig Review. Party In The Park, Bootle.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are certain people in this world to which respect is not just an idea mooted, it is given whole-heartedly and without hesitation. Whilst every person you bump into, rub along alongside or have the chance to listen to should be valued, for at least it takes the time for them to open their mouth and their opinions tumble out like a sack of sick cats all pus eyed and fleshed out fur, or in the case of The Huyton Minstrel, ringing velvet truth from a life of keen observation and seeing the misery heaped upon certain members of society in the chase for social injustice, respect is due to people and artists such as the man behind the minstrel stare; Carl Allan.

The Huyton Minstrel, Gig Review. Party In The Park, Bootle. full post

(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Maddie, Gig Review. The Party In The Park, Bootle.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It’s almost a hundred years since the London tabloid press used the phrase The bright young things to describe a group of bohemian socialites, ravaged perhaps by the decade’s greed and eventual bust which dominated the inter-war years. Looking back at that time it is hard to express sympathy for them, as it is difficult to acknowledge any empathy or kindness to another so called bubble of enlightenment and entitlement, the bankers and the money makers who, arguably, act nothing more than spoiled pirates.

Maddie, Gig Review. The Party In The Park, Bootle. full post

(439 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Daisy Gill, Gig Review. The Party In The Park, Bootle.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

One of the more disturbing aspects of life is in the way that many will seek to have some power over the individual, practised under the banner of the well meaning but socially supremacy or showing dominance over thought, of suggesting that a person has to be like everybody else in order to get along. The phrase, wouldn’t you be happier if you dressed like us, acted like us, become one of us, is one born out of such double standards, one in which society expects the norm to adhered too, even in perhaps the most tolerant and so called accepting times.

Daisy Gill, Gig Review. The Party In The Park, Bootle. full post

(456 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Sam Lyon, Gig Review. The Party In The Park, Bootle.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating

The eternal triangle, a day of music wherever you looked, Skeleton Coast on the other side of the river, Love and Glory just a couple of miles up the road in Liverpool and making up this unusual feast of music mayhem and August summer vibes, in a part of Merseyside that often gets overlooked by Government and to the despair of its residents, the Party in the Park; Bootle’s mighty answer, its generous wave and beautiful setting appeal, of an afternoon of culture and holding a neighbour close, was kicked off in fine style by Sam Lyon.

Sam Lyon, Gig Review. The Party In The Park, Bootle. full post

(475 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With Billy Kelly, Party In The Park, Bootle.

A town in its own right, yet for some inexplicable reason, the people of Bootle will invariably say that they are from Liverpool when asked, not out of shame, or out misplaced thought, but perhaps out of association; after all for most of the younger townsfolk, Liverpool is a place to naturally gravitate too, it is where, after all, the centre of the Universe actually is, where noted psychoanalyst Carl Jung declared to be “The Pool of Life.”

Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With Billy Kelly, Party In The Park, Bootle. full post

(1637 words, estimated 6:33 mins reading time)

The Dead Cassettes, Gig Review. Johnsons’ Pavilion, Bootle.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Life is too short to waste worrying too much about the past, it should be seen as a guide, a tutor, the teacher who educates to the point where the lessons are learned, committed to memory, and then the individual should be able to move on with the next moment where they step out blinking in the sun and putting their next triumph on show for people to take notice. We all have regrets, we all play that same image in our heads over and over again, it is natural to think back to the time when the path became a choice; it is taken and we deal, it just might be that the soundtrack is better, even on the Dead Cassettes.

The Dead Cassettes, Gig Review. Johnsons’ Pavilion, Bootle. full post

(489 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Choc Electrique, Gig Review. Johnsons’ Pavilion, Bootle.

Choc Electrique in Bootle, July 2016. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

In the shadow of the now abandoned St. Andrews Church, a building that once tried to save souls and dish out compassion, where a modern for sale sign bristles against the thought of commercialism and the ravage of capitalism, a front man of delight of dedication reached out to the assembled and took them on a small journey of groove, a service of musical enlightenment and to one which the pulpit of the stage was not big enough, one in which the superb Choc Electrique powered over the crowd and Greedy Jesus, the front man for the 21^st Century led the congregation into musical heaven.

Choc Electrique, Gig Review. Johnsons’ Pavilion, Bootle. full post

(466 words, 1 image, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Hegarty, Gig Review. Johnsons’ Pavilion, Bootle.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The storming finish, the band that gets people up to dance and forget the finite detail of the week they may have had, the month they have had to scrape through, that band is worth its weight in gold. It may be the one that you turn to when all seems desperate, the loose ended feeling, your all time favourite from decades past, yet a band that can calm the nerves, stop the pressure from boiling over and take you out of your head as a Saturday folds itself away into the past forever, that is the band in which to really be seen with. There are a few of them in Liverpool, in the freshly young bracket that are 21^st Century delivered, they all stand out, as too does the final group in the Battle of the Bands, the festival of musical things on the bowling green lawn in Bootle – Hegarty.

Hegarty, Gig Review. Johnsons’ Pavilion, Bootle. full post

(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

The Huyton Minstrel, Gig Review. Johnsons’ Pavilion, Bootle.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is not just Bootle that can be seen as being forgotten in many ways by the higher powers that be, the area of Huyton, as well as other places in the North West and those beyond the remit of the Westminster village, has also suffered and its people, those who work in the on-going rejuvenation of Liverpool, must at times wonder when is it their turn and who really speaks for them, what weaver of words is their lauded king or queen to make the area stand up for itself.

The Huyton Minstrel, Gig Review. Johnsons’ Pavilion, Bootle. full post

(493 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Interrobang, Gig Review. Johnsons’ Pavilion, Bootle.

Interrobang performing in Bootle, July 2016. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The air is punctured, the big bang of the angry, cross and disillusioned comes out across the scene of serenity with truth galloping beside it at such a rate of knots that it is possible to feel the strength of rightful bitterness as if it were a tornado, a hurricane on the verge of demolishing the insidious and the crass, the self serving and the out and out distasteful. This was the cold wind of reality that captured the mood but didn’t spoil it, that enhanced the reasons to which the town of Bootle has felt the pressure of for decades.

Interrobang, Gig Review. Johnsons’ Pavilion, Bootle. full post

(459 words, 1 image, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)