Tag Archives: Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church

Michael Sutton, Gig Review. St Luke’s Church, Liverpool.

Michael Sutton, St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool. Augist 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Imagine playing in your first professional football match and it being the F.A Cup Final, you score a Hat-Trick, clear the ball off the line saving a certain equaliser in the last minute and being told by the Manager that Barcelona have put in an offer for you. Or if that sounds too far-fetched, being elected to Parliament on the wave of popular opinion, keeping all your promises, being hailed a World-Statesperson and somehow being someone of such high moral value that you only take a salary in keeping with the lowest earners in your constituency; none of that possibly compares to playing your debut gig in the open air venue of St. Luke’s and being sensational. Surely the latter is the hardest to believe.

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

Greedy Jesus, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool.

Greedy Jesus, St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool. August 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In Jesus some trust, if you hear Greedy Jesus perform then all musical worship is usually conviction in faith is expected and delivered. Faith is what you make of it, it is what gets you through the small hours, the darkness and the negative damning thoughts that creep into your psyche like a rampaging vampiric worm bent on eating out on your soul and asking for a doggy bag for the leftovers; faith is what stands between you and oblivion.

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

Sons Of Mowgli, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool.

Sons Of Mowgli, St Luke’s Church, Liverpool. August 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is often reported as a matter of fact that every living Human on the planet could stand side by side on the Isle of Wight, aside from the logistical nightmare and the social faux pas of finding yourself next to someone who thinks they are a clever so and so and refusing to shake your hand, just exactly how would you entertain everybody whilst the experiment was proved? If you made everybody listen to an I-Pod and made sure that the first songs they heard were by Wirral-band Sons of Mowgli, then at least whilst wondering why you would conduct such an insane experiment, the people stood shoulder to shoulder on the Isle of Wight would have something decent to listen to.

Sons Of Mowgli, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool. full post

(469 words, 1 image, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Jimmy And The Revolvers, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To sing on a stage, to perform as a duo when normally your live set is a tight and almost unbreakable foursome, to play as though your voice is smiling, is something that just has to be seen and witnessed. For Jimmy and The Revolvers that quality of being able to pull off all three requirements to being to being considered having greatness thrust upon them is one that comes with a humble shrug of the shoulders and a unsaid apology as if to say, “Well why wouldn’t we?”

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(463 words, 1 image, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

John Chatterton, Gig Review. St Luke’s Church, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

No matter how many times you watch John Chatterton perform in or around Liverpool you constantly feel bowled over by the genuine love that works its way between performer and audience in a constant yoyo effect that never seems capable of stopping.

The set is one that has an un-dilutable power attached to it, a facility to charm despite what many people might think about certain songs, their expressions and thoughts are soon changed as Mr. Chatterton’s guitar takes the crowd past their pre-conceptions and delights and beguiles in broad equal measure.

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(425 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Billy Kelly, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool.

Billy Kelly at St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool. August 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There aren’t too many towns and cities in the U.K. that are as close physically, geographically and tangibly as Bootle and Liverpool. Many are the people that don’t know much about the town on the Mersey, just over three miles north from the Capital of music culture and the struggles it faces on a daily basis. There are those that even think that Bootle is just another off-shoot, an estate, within the borders of Liverpool. Yet despite a certain lack of understanding that resides in the minds of many, Bootle shares a common thread with its younger but much bigger sister, its ability to turn out musicians who adhere to the way of social conscious and who aren’t afraid to say so. One such musician opened up the substantial afternoon of acoustic music at St Luke’s Church, Bootle’s own Billy Kelly.

Billy Kelly, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool. full post

(488 words, 1 image, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Space, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling. Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9^1/2/10

Space at St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

High above the city a banner unfurled as it was being towed along by a plane. It was un-missable, which was the point, to anybody who craned their neck and strained their eyesight to a limit not recommended by Opticians. In keeping with the tone of the weekend’s events and as hundreds of thousands packed any available square inch of pavement to them, the banner simply read, “There Are Giants In Town”. That there was but possibly not the ones the pilot was thinking of as he dragged the banner through the summer sky.

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(662 words, 1 image, estimated 2:39 mins reading time)

Jetta, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling. Liverpool.

Jetta at St. Lukes Church, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8/10

In amongst all the Rock that was being played out to those gathered inside St. Luke’s, an amount of grace was needed and who better than Jetta to give the audience a certain amount of elegance and refined style as the steamy day gave way to warm evening appeal.

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(372 words, 1 image, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

The Sundowners, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling. Liverpool.

The Sundowners, St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool. Liverpool Calling. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Class shows at all times, flair is a trait that just announces itself before a word is spoken, an action inspired or a thought performed in the cold hazy obscured light or in the realms of a thousand eyes trained upon the deed; for The Sundowners, class is ready to be achieved at all times.

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(429 words, 1 image, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

The Mono LPs, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling, Liverpool.

Ste Reid of The Mono Lps at St. Lukes Chuch, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Liverpool called out, giants strode the roads and alleys as if they had appeared out of a C.S. Lewis manuscript and inside St. Luke’s Church another set of giants, ones not controlled by puppetry, man nor machine took to stage and showed once more just why they are such an exciting, tremendously warm and energetic band to watch live.

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(486 words, 1 image, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)