Tag Archives: Gig Review. Capstone Theatre

Ed Harcourt, Gig Review. Capstone Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A whirlwind of emotions arrives and diverge, divide and multiply at this time of year, we become engaged in the scope of the sentiments passed to us by total strangers and react in kind to the misplaced smile or the sorrowful tear we see on the street. We hope for peace, we yearn for the sound of harmony and reconciliation, of goodwill and the knowledge that come the spring, once we are out Beyond The End of winter the sun will shine on us favourably and with honour.

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(520 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Dean Friedman, Gig Review. Capstone Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are some people on this planet to whom the gift of a smile in their direction is not enough to display the gratitude we owe them for making us happy, for giving us a gift of happiness that can never be fully repaid; some artists, family and friends deserve the longest of hugs and the full appreciation of a room of warm and loving applause, some will never perhaps know just how the simple act of a single song written means the world to thousands.

Dean Friedman, Gig Review. Capstone Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

Ricky Ross, Gig Review. Capstone Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Ricky Ross at the Capstone Theatre, Liverpool. November 2017. Photograph used with kind permission by David Munn Photography.

It seems a strange departure when you first see the piano on the stage at the Capstone Theatre, the audience knows full well it is not going to be a performance in which the roof of the Echo Arena would shake and feel the storming pull of wave after wave of pop hits and the shake of expectation of Deacon Blue favourites that have become a staple on the Liverpool calendar since the venue opened. However, when it comes to Ricky Ross, almost anything is possible and the Capstone Theatre roof must have been concerned for the future of its position.

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(450 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Anthony D’ Amato, Gig Review. Capstone Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Anthony D’ Amato at the Capstone Theatre, Liverpool. November 2017. Photograph used with kind permission by David Munn Photography.

Even today in the ease of travelling across oceans and different time zones, there is something distinctly admirable about letting go of the comfortable and the secure and opening yourself up to the possibility of the unknown and possibly uncharted. To leave one’s home town behind, to venture into the space between love and acceptance is a challenge, no matter how old, no matter how experienced; it is still one that marks you out as having the chops to spread your word far and wide.

Anthony D’ Amato, Gig Review. Capstone Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(396 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Maya Jazz, Gig Review. Capstone Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The auditorium inside the Capstone Theatre has been one which has opened its extensive arms to the world of Jazz beyond its normally perceived conceptions, it has enlightened in such a way that to think of an International Jazz Festival in Liverpool without the Capstone’s involvement is to commit an act of musical treachery.

It is in its offerings that the music has flowed, it has been greatly received and has been enhanced by the surprise packages that make up the early Saturday afternoon, the tantalising glimpses into a realm of fusion, of discovery, of Jazz but in not in a sense of the normal but in the glowing sphere of breathtaking blend and union.

Maya Jazz, Gig Review. Capstone Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Firebird Quartet, Gig Review. Capstone Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Jazz might get its detractors, the sneering or the snide remarks in which it has taken with grace and humour over the decades, a medium which really does not get the support it fully deserves or the appreciation of the skill involved. It is perhaps easy to be critical of something which on the face of it offers only a sense of imagination, it is though in the very heart of that sincere vision that Jazz truly gets under the skin in such a way that it ripples with intellect and meaning.

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

Cameron Vale, Gig Review. Capstone Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The art of the Progressive is not limited to the sole sphere of Rock and whilst it would seem out of place to put it in the same bracket as pop, couple it with electro fusion, Rap or even dare to try to suggest that Classical wander down the Progressive route, in Jazz it is mysteriously connected, two styles, seemingly different and yet full of ambient colour and mind blowing effect that it is arguably a necessity of form worth exploring.

Cameron Vale, Gig Review. Capstone Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(417 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Steve Howe, Gig Review. Capstone Theatre, Liverpool.

 

Steve Howe at The Capstone Theatre, Liverpool. September 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Steve Howe at The Capstone Theatre, Liverpool. September 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Life is meant to be taken with equal amounts of pleasure and pain, of hope and despair and with a certain degree of unimaginable delicate beauty that filters through to the soul as if carried by a being with a great taste in music and who knows that television, has tried its best to destroy any type of sensuality and indulgence between artist and audience. Thankfully it hasn’t succeeded yet but there are times when you go to a venue, no matter where, and you know deep down in your heart that like those that try to feed the constant mantra of “The Economy” that somewhere, somehow, executives have managed to convince some that by staying in and watching the latest act it wants to promote for profit is good for music.

Steve Howe, Gig Review. Capstone Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(597 words, 1 image, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)