Tag Archives: Gig Review. Liverpool Loves Festival

Dominic Dunn, Gig Review. Liverpool Loves Festival, Pier Head, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

As the light began to fade and the sun was musing on its daily retirement from the sight of the people of Liverpool, one young man stood aloft on the stage and proceeded to show exactly why it is important to give the youth of the city the chance to show why they must never be taken for granted. Why they should not be decried as members of society and why at all costs they must be nurtured and given the hope and strength they need to do the jobs that we as their elders have perhaps mislaid our own purpose in fulfilling.

Dominic Dunn, Gig Review. Liverpool Loves Festival, Pier Head, Liverpool. full post

(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Gary Edward Jones, Gig Review. Liverpool Loves Festival, Pier Head, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10

The Mersey Side area arguably produces so many talented song writers and musicians that there is a thought that what would British music be like without the enormous and hardy input from its shores; perhaps not desolate for the music that comes out of Edinburgh, Birmingham, the Canterbury set and all places in between stand out as being cool and diverse but Liverpool surely gives it its heart.

Gary Edward Jones, Gig Review. Liverpool Loves Festival, Pier Head, Liverpool. full post

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

Roxanne de Bastion, Gig Review. Liverpool Loves Festival, Pier Head, Liverpool.

Roxanne de Bastion at the Liverpool Loves Festival 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The sun was on its waning path across the River Mersey as Roxanne de Bastion took to the Dovedale Social Stage. The journey to the city’s Liverpool Loves Festival may have been a fraught and arduous one, but it was one that led to Ms. Bastion being greeted like an old friend and one in which the day would ultimately revel in her way of musical story-telling, the fire in the Folk and the wonderful way in which to turn one particular song associated with one genre into the epitome of another.

Roxanne de Bastion, Gig Review. Liverpool Loves Festival, Pier Head, Liverpool. full post

(475 words, 1 image, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Liverpool Loves Festival, Pier Head, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Living up to, and going beyond the pressure is what separates the good and the enjoyable from the legends of the future. It cannot after all be easy to live up to the shadows that a much admired name bestows, neither can it be taken in the same vein when you have already produced one of the musical performances of the year so far.

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Liverpool Loves Festival, Pier Head, Liverpool. full post

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

Satin Beige, Gig Review. Liverpool Loves Festival, Pier Head, Liverpool.

Satin Beige at the Liverpool Loves Festival. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In such a short time Satin Beige has become one of those performers in Liverpool that you look up to with huge respect and the abiding knowledge that all is well in the world. For whilst this woman can sing and play cello with the passion reserved for the angry, the displaced and the brave, then the world will surely keep turning and heeding her words of youthful wisdom.

Satin Beige, Gig Review. Liverpool Loves Festival, Pier Head, Liverpool. full post

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

Jimmy And The Revolvers, Gig Review. Liverpool Loves Festival, Pier Head, Liverpool.

Jimmy and the Revolvers, Liverpool Loves Festival 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Liverpool without some certain young bands does not bear thinking about, they are the groups that have not only captured the new wave of the city’s music appreciation, the 21^st Century in which The Beatles are still emulated and lauded but to whom also there is no personal attachment to the stories going beyond their grandparents and to whom the past now is a role model and not to be afraid of. They are also the bands that consistently give such great pleasure and the sweat of a new dawn each time they play.

Jimmy And The Revolvers, Gig Review. Liverpool Loves Festival, Pier Head, Liverpool. full post

(453 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)