Tag Archives: Gig Review. Echo Arena

Deacon Blue, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. (2014).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Deacon Blue performing at the Echo Arena, December 2014. Photograph courtesy of David Munn Photography.

From here on the days start to get longer, the country may just be staring into abyss that is the cold and potentially snow bound days of winter but at least there is light starting to creep back into the 24 hour clock as the balance of Time tips slowly back in favour of being able to be out of the house. However, the shortest day of the year affords the party to have a long hurrah, to slip comfortably into the clothes that make a person feel better and to enjoy one of the most popular acts that comes to Liverpool and its Echo Arena, the phenomenal Deacon Blue.

Deacon Blue, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. (2014). full post

(573 words, 2 images, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Zervas And Pepper, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

To experience something new is one of the great pleasures of life. It gets the brain going, it tingles the imagination and sets a blazing path under your feet to try and find out more. Thankfully in the 21^st Century, you can make a beeline for the internet when the evening’s performance is over; visit a band’s home page and then several really handy and badly taken concert footage reels which litter the web should the desire take you, all in the name of just finding out that little bit more about the fresh new sound your ears have been exposed to.

Zervas And Pepper, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. full post

(459 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Brit Floyd, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. (2014).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is a problem that can flummox the most ardent or even the most casual of music lovers in Liverpool, that nowhere in the U.K., with perhaps the possible exception of London with its network of collected villages all rolled up into a Westminster empiric bag, can offer so much music in one night to its populace that audiences can be split through loyalty, nostalgia and shared love.

Brit Floyd, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. (2014). full post

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

The Who, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. December 2014.

The Who, Echo Arena, Liverpool. December 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It’s a wonder at times that the River Mersey doesn’t grumble at the thought of another band making its way to the Echo Arena and producing a cacophony of sound that seeps through every pore of the audience’s being. The dynamic ebb and flow, the underlying fury that drives the water down to the Liverpool-Manchester Canal and hits the rocky shoreline of Ireland with a brutal but much loved smack takes second place to the sheer resonance produced when rock legends such as Peter Gabriel, Status Quo and The Who come to Liverpool within a week of each other.

The Who, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. December 2014. full post

(626 words, 1 image, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

Peter Gabriel, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Peter Gabriel at the Echo Arena, Liverpool. December 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

For many, Peter Gabriel is still seen as “The Progfather”, the man who defined a generation and stunning musical narration with a theatrical bent and who still gets talked of lovingly as perhaps being able to capture those moments of outstanding early Genesis releases. To others he is the man who played his part in bringing down a regime so vile and disturbing that it sends a shiver down the spine when images from that time are shown on television.

Peter Gabriel, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. full post

(796 words, 1 image, estimated 3:11 mins reading time)

Linnea Olsson And Jennie Abrahamson, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is perhaps beyond the compression or wildest dreams of any fan of music to understand what must go through the minds of the support act when they open up for what is considered a living legend. For many in a crowd just being in the vicinity of the front row of the gig is a claustrophobic and overwhelming prospect.

Linnea Olsson And Jennie Abrahamson, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. full post

(447 words, 1 image, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Bryan Adams, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Bryan Adams at the Liverpool Echo Arena, Photograph reproduced with kind permission by Marie Dodd, November 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

For the next few months the Liverpool Echo Arena will vibrate to the sound of the multitude of Rock acts that will come to the U.K.’s music city in a blistering undertaking to see out 2014 and to make sure 2015 is another vintage year to remember. With the likes of Peter Gabriel and The Who making their way to the Mersey shoreline, the Echo is getting the attention it deserves, with the Kaiser Chiefs, Korn and Slipknot all descending upon the music heart, it can surely only be time before other more established bands realise that the tour schedule doesn’t always have to stop at Manchester.

Bryan Adams, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. full post

(743 words, 1 image, estimated 2:58 mins reading time)