Tag Archives: Gig Review. Echo Arena

Iron Maiden, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Steve Harris at the Echo Arena, Liverpool. May 2017.

Time is never to be wasted, it can be played with, it can amuse for a while and cause mischief, holding hands with it can either leave you feeling secure and protected or experiencing the pain of being ravaged, the sharp toothed tiger of Time plunging its teeth its teeth like a vampire cat, bleeding you dry. Time should not be wasted and therefore by logic we should not go looking for those wasted years…we should and must just feel the frenzy of excitement, the emotion, the fury, the whirl of cool when a long lost band comes back and delivers pound for pound one of the finest sets on stage in thirty years.

Iron Maiden, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. full post

(577 words, 1 image, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

The Who, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. (2017).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Never knowingly disappoint your fans, give them everything you can from the very start of your career and when the final whistle starts to be blown, when perhaps the fat lady has began to clear her voice and make those irregular noises associated with the opera singer’s mad dash for stardom become apparent, give them more than they ever bargained for, give them the world.

The Who, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. (2017). full post

(546 words, 1 image, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

Brit Floyd, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. (2017).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It could be argued that the pulse of the Universe runs through the veins of what we feel, the mood we inhabit and the longing we have deep inside of us for the comfortable and unnerving in equal measure; such is that pulse, such is beauty in a single note that the art and the artist are entwined, that even hearing it performed by another is enough to raise the goosebumps to a point where they can be seen from space.

Brit Floyd, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. (2017). full post

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

Status Quo, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. (2016).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The devout and the inspired will always go to the final preaching of the long lived and the elegantly able; like a fine wine served at room temperature in a Guernsey hotel, the taste is enough to feel inebriated just to be in the company of the exulted and prime music stalwarts. For the fans of Status Quo they were not about to allow their main hero of Francis Rossi or the memory of the band that started out all those decades ago to simply fade into the realm of acoustic sessions, this final night of the last ever electric tour in the U.K. was to be a celebration of all things Quo.

Status Quo, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. (2016). full post

(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

REO Speedwagon, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are many things that are remiss in this world, the fact that valiant AOR specialists REO Speedwagon have never made the journey to the heart of British music, the city that gave modern music to the masses, is surely one of them. Yet if the band were going to visit Liverpool for the first ever time then to be in the Echo Arena as the Christmas cheer bit down hard as the headliners played their last ever electric gig on British soil, then that was a present for many in the audience worth waiting for.

REO Speedwagon, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. full post

(383 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Lewis & Leigh, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It always with an interested eye on the crowd that you take in a new band appearing anywhere in the city of Liverpool, the occasional glance around at the faces, the small ticks and upturned smiles or the corresponding withering looks or confused, abandoned stares that places your trust in the gut feeling you have formed a belief in. It is with an acute ear though that makes up your mind and allows you to know that in many cases the music you hear is sincere, played with panache, a certain style and whilst it could be lost in the big wide space, it most certainly would go down a bomb and be applauded with great honour in avenue size down.

Lewis & Leigh, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. full post

(401 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Nickelback, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The gaze of the music lover as they stare into the image, the dramatic pose of the Rock musician as they ply their trade on stage may leave some baffled, bemused by the adoration and respect dished out as songs about sex, abandonment, alcohol and heroism are played out before an arena’s audience; no band perhaps has caused that bemusement more to manifest in the eyes of eyes of a large percentage of the population than Nickelback.

Nickelback, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. full post

(511 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Elton John, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Life is a distraction filled with the sometimes endless search for acceptance, love and experience; it should never be about fear, about wondering if you are going to go out and come home alone, that the music might suddenly stop in a heartbeat or if the lights will one day turn out because of someone else’s intolerable beliefs.

Elton John, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. full post

(481 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Bryan Adams, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. (2016).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Bryan Adams, perhaps more than ever, knows how to take an audience on a ride of musical exuberance and heart beating songs; always entertaining live, Bryan Adams has become one of Rock’s elder statesmen and he has done so without losing the gift of youthful expression and the energy of a man possessed of charm, confidence and undoubted skill. To lose such attributes would be to diminish the truth behind the musician, to lose them would be depriving one of the great entertainers of his time.

Bryan Adams, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. (2016). full post

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

Manic Street Preachers, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Time has only has its own void to fill when you realise that a decade has gone past, when the thought of a great concert in the city by one of the most proficient, unambiguous and staunchly determined groups of their era, becomes once more a biting and tenacious reality.

Manic Street Preachers, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. full post

(462 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)