Tag Archives: Gig Review. District

SisteRay, Gig Review. District, Liverpool. Hope Fest 2015.

SisteRay at District, Liverpool. September 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is always that question that burns in the mind in the dead of night, when the lingering thoughts of the after gig nap or playful sleep bounding still with muscles twitching and brain whirring with what should be hopeful received pleasure, the query of, “Where have you been all my life” is one that never gets asked of music and musicians, only ever in the greeting of a first seen attraction.

SisteRay, Gig Review. District, Liverpool. Hope Fest 2015. full post

(393 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Late Night Oil, Gig Review. District, Liverpool. Hope Fest 2015.

Katy McGrath of Late Night Oil at District for Hope Fest 2015. Photograph by Lis Garrett. Photograph used with kind permission by Lis Garrett.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When there are no more Yokos left, it could set a dangerous situation spiralling out of control, for when the ethereal Muse departs the world and the shadow of disappointing average song is allowed to fester, the world will surely crumble into a artistic dust…whilst bands like Late Night Oil are around though, showing the way by whatever means of solid illumination is possible, the Muse will always have something to consider worth enjoying and to be seen dancing, swaying and rocking out to in the full glare of the un-dampened stage light.

Late Night Oil, Gig Review. District, Liverpool. Hope Fest 2015. full post

(404 words, 1 image, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Dan Wilson, Gig Review. District, Liverpool. Hope Fest 2015.

Simon James on Saxaphone for Dan Wilson at District 2015.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The message of Hope is plastered without impunity everywhere you look and the thought of the displaced and the homeless being made to suffer such indignity in the 21^st Century is one that should cause society to feel absolute shame. Hope though is one thing that can never be taken away; in no matter what form hope should present itself, then hope survives.

As part of this year’s Hope Fest line up, a new hope for the ever growing pool of talent that Liverpool shares with the world is felt in the music supplied by Dan Wilson.

Dan Wilson, Gig Review. District, Liverpool. Hope Fest 2015. full post

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

Edgar Jones, Gig Review. District, Liverpool. Hope Fest 2015.

Edgar Jones at District. Hope Fest 2015. Photograph by Lis Garrett. Picture used with kind permission by Lis Garrett.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Back in March of this year the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool was treated to the re-emergence of one of its most favourite musicians in the form of Edgar Jones on the stage as he opened the evening for the musical colossus that is Dr. John, it was a return to which many in the home grown audience could, if propriety had been thrown out of the window, have wept with solemn joy at the sight. Many it was to be seen, were certainly on the verge of letting such stifling actions go and no one would have blamed them for being so honest and in touch with their feelings over such a talented man and his much missed voice.

Edgar Jones, Gig Review. District, Liverpool. Hope Fest 2015. full post

(416 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Joe Symes And The Loving Kind, Gig Review. District, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To perform in Liverpool should be a nothing less than an honour. It is the rightful home of the birth of British Pop Music, the most successful city in the U.K. where music is concerned and in many way it is home to perhaps the most diverse variety, with even the glimmering of the heavier side of Metal and the coolness of Progressive Rock having its fans in the Merseyside areas surrounding the heartlands of venues such as The Cavern, Parr Street, The Academy, District, The Lomax, The Brink and The Epstein. To perform in Liverpool should be an honour, to watch Joe Symes and Loving Kind is a special kind of privilege.

Joe Symes And The Loving Kind, Gig Review. District, Liverpool. full post

(581 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Shamanarchy, Gig Review. District, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

It might not quite be Anarchy in the U.K. but the spirit of women with attitude, the delivery of a demon and the manner of a Greek god chewing through the finer points of why Humanity is at the beck and call of its sisters lives well and with some tremendous flowering agility in the heart of Shamanarchy .

Shamanarchy, Gig Review. District, Liverpool. full post

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

The All, Gig Review. District, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

There are times when to hold back your emotions and perhaps even your stringent, occasionally narrow, mind and let in a music argument that night not have been on your mind when you go into a venue. You might go in expecting one thing but then the support kicks in and you are left with a further belief attached to your many quivers and multitudes of bows.

For The All, the sound they produce is one of an unusual quality, a starkness which is endearing and coming so far out of left field that if donned an Everton kit and yet banged in a hat trick every week for Liverpool at Anfield nobody would be more surprised.

The All, Gig Review. District, Liverpool. full post

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