Tag Archives: Gig Review

Toyah And Robert’s Sunday Lunch: Live. Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Toyah has never lost her sense of fun and style, and her husband, the legendary Robert Fripp, exudes such an air of gentlemanly grace that to be in their presence can often feel measurably overwhelming.

For to watch two of Britain’s most experienced performers on stage can lead to the listener being comforted and dominated in the same breath; and when they are together on the back of their hugely successful Sunday Lunch show online that sartorial elegance on stage for a Liverpool crowd is one that is to be acknowledged as being performed by a king and queen of Prog and Punk.

Toyah And Robert’s Sunday Lunch: Live. Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

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

Paul Dunbar & The Black Winter Band, Gig Review. Music Room, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There is always a debate on whether it is the atmosphere, the songs or the venue in which the music is played in which gives the night its vibe, its sense of hopefully glorious thrill and heart pounding beauty; a night which if you are fortunate enough to attend will leave you breathless and on the verge of weeping tears of joy of having had the honour of witnessing unfold.

Paul Dunbar & The Black Winter Band, Gig Review. Music Room, Liverpool. full post

(391 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Rosenblume, Gig Review. Music Room, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

All through the fire we search for the ones that can ease our soul, that will lift our spirits in times when the winter dark threatens to overwhelm us, to consume us; it is after all better to surrender to the flames of passion than to shiver in the cold embrace of the unloved.

Rosenblume, Gig Review. Music Room, Liverpool. full post

(374 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

The Goldhawks, Quadrophenia Live!. Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are few albums that emphasise and capture a moment in British history as well as The Who’s Quadrophenia, a work not just of outstanding cultural reference but a recording that simply blows others in its class away, outstanding lyrics, music that causes the brain to absorb the depths of imagery, and one that just feels every moment of angst for a generation betrayed by growing up in the shadow of the aftermath of World War Two. Of freedom of expression, but not knowing how to harness it enough to overthrow the shackles of post war hypocrisy completely; in short they don’t make them like The Who anymore, and they don’t make albums as raw, as telling, as beautiful as Quadrophenia.

The Goldhawks, Quadrophenia Live!. Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(426 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Nicola Hardman, Gig Review. 24 Kitchen Street, Liverpool. Threshold 2017

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It is not always about the extravaganza, the mighty venue, the plush carpet and the comfortable seats; it is rarely about that but some seem to believe that the experience of attending a gig is defined by the circumspect, the additions, the price tag or the illusion. It is a shame that the world has gone down the route of seeing things for their glitter and not for their honesty, for the very sense of real that comes over in an performance that capture the imagination and send your brain swimming into overdrive; all that glitters is not even palladium nickel, it is tarnished with that very illusion that makes it in the end cheap and bruising.

Nicola Hardman, Gig Review. 24 Kitchen Street, Liverpool. Threshold 2017 full post

(449 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Merry Hell, Gig Review. Philharmonic Music Rooms, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The bench mark so keenly set out by the month of January is normally set at a medium position, the year to come not wanting to have to work so hard to leap past records as if produced by the great Lyn Davies or Jonathan Edwards, the quick jump into the musical express never one to be truly expected as the audience and band alike always find themselves unravelling their web like bones from a season of warmth and inside festivities.

Merry Hell, Gig Review. Philharmonic Music Rooms, Liverpool. full post

(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Jimmy Rae & The Moonshine Girls, Gig Review. Philharmonic Music Rooms, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is a crime to miss out on a filled room with like mind, appreciative people, a crime which is exonerated if the venue is sold out but not when things such as television, just things, unwarranted intrusions in to the life of going out and being social, of supporting musical talent in any form or guise; it is a misdeed, a felony to miss out on the man with the pencil neck tie and a smile as broad as the Mersey, Jimmy Rae and the Moonshine Girls.

Jimmy Rae & The Moonshine Girls, Gig Review. Philharmonic Music Rooms, Liverpool. full post

(421 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

The Human League, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. (2016).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You only have to go by the sound of the crowd to understand what music means to the people. In the end it is not about mass popularity, the endless soul destroying fight with fame and supposed fortune, it is how your art makes others feel deep in their souls and if you can have a sold out Philharmonic Hall audience singing their hearts out, making the foundations and the walls shake slightly in anticipation and the low moan of pleasure in the ears as hearts spill open over 35 years worth of love and affection for arguably one of the architects of British Synth Pop, The Human League, then the crowd cannot be wrong.

The Human League, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. (2016). full post

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

Kangarilla Pig, Gig Review. Hanger 34, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A strong heart, a powerful stance and a set list you could ask out for dinner and watch it devour the entire meat section with passion in its eyes and a drool forming on your lips, it might have only been the fourth time that Kangarilla Pig have performed live as a unit but the steam, the energy they give off is enough to make both the Flying Scotsman and the and Rajadhani Express seethe with jealousy and their drivers ask for the number of their coal supplier.

Kangarilla Pig, Gig Review. Hanger 34, Liverpool. full post

(419 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)