Tag Archives: Gareth Heesom

Gareth Heesom, Christmas Without You. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Christmas pulls on the heart strings for a reason, and if we took away the forced gluttony of overspending, of treating it as if it was a period to over-indulge, to practise a sense of religion that for the rest of the year we have no truck with, all that would be left is a moment in which we reflect during the short hours of light and the lengthening shadows of dark, of all that we may have achieved, who has been by our side and who has supported us during the bright, unclouded days.

Gareth Heesom, Christmas Without You. Single Review. full post

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

Gareth Heesom, Love At Night. Single Review.

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.

Gareth Heesom, Love At Night. Single Review. full post

(330 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

Gareth Heesom, Hold You In My Dreams. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Depending on your age and just how much the weekly music chart meant to you in your formative years, there will always come along a song that hits you that you know instinctively would have achieved the coveted number one spot with ease. No matter the genre, it only required the right voice, the symbolism of its tune and the belief to see it soar to the very top.

Gareth Heesom, Hold You In My Dreams. Single Review. full post

(344 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

Gareth Heesom, Billy’s Girl. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To carry the tender voice onwards is nothing short of a great gift to bestow upon those who have left us behind as their own great adventure carries on. In the same way that we lauded and praised our ancestors in songs of memory in times that may seem alien to us, the practise, the joy of singing to our parents or grandparents, of remembering them in verse or poetic stance, be they heroic or just kind, it is a race memory we still follow, even if we have no understanding of the reasons why we do it, and just believe that it is there because it is a beautiful thing to do.

Gareth Heesom, Billy’s Girl. Single Review. full post

(431 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Gareth Heesom, A Million Butterflies. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The sound of butterfly wings may always be shrouded in myth and legend, the floating beauty of once human souls in the times of ancients, is perhaps not as prevalent as once was, too many species driven to the point of extinction, so many souls lost; and yet there is still the thought that persists that they will carry your hopes, dreams and wishes to a place which may grant them.

If a single butterfly can convey just one craving, then surely A Million Butterflies can break down the barriers of all the yearnings you ever experience in a life time, that they whisper only to the gods all you love and hope for.

Gareth Heesom, A Million Butterflies. Single Review. full post

(287 words, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)

Annie, Theatre Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 8th 2009.

Cast: Lydia Tunstall, Su Pollard, Michael Morgan, Chris Molloy, James Muller, Gemma James, Gareth Heesom, Simone Craddock, Lorinda King.

A story about an orphaned girl, the depression, 1930’s American society and the undercurrent of child beating doesn’t spring to mind the plot of a heart warming musical that combines some of theatre’s best known songs with some feisty one liners and cheekiness, but in the hands of director Roger Hannah and produces Chris Moreno this classic of film and theatre has been given new life.

Annie, Theatre Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(312 words, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)