Tag Archives: Gig Review

The Popdogs, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2013.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

With over a 100 bands and groups making their way to Liverpool as part of the International Pop Overthrow, now its 11th year of coming to the city, you would expect some rather great acts to make their way to the forefront, gently guide you to some good tracks and times and leave you gasping hopefully for more. What you might not expect, especially in the city that gave pop music to the country if not Europe and beyond, was a for a group to make their way across from the sleepy city of Lincoln and give the type of performance that the bands that made Merseybeat would have said was the best way to thrill a crowd and then make that same audience wriggle with excitement at reliving those heady days.

The Popdogs, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2013. full post

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

Lee And The Lovedaddies, Gig Review. The Cavern Club. International Pop Overthrow.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If Liverpool Sound City taught audiences across the area anything, aside to expect great music all day and every day, it was to expect the unexpected. The singular moment when a band comes up on stage that the audience has never heard of and near enough blows them away with their catchy music, their incredible enjoyable insanity and overall charm providing a great excuse to check out other group from the same country on the off chance you have missed something incredible. In the sublime Lee and the Lovedaddies there surely cannot be any better as this foursome from Belgium are off the scale.

Lee And The Lovedaddies, Gig Review. The Cavern Club. International Pop Overthrow. full post

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

Steve Hackett, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. Gig Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It is near on nigh impossible to recreate a classic. To recreate a masterpiece and make it epic takes musical genius and a talent that coupled with a deep burning desire to give some of the great tracks of Progressive Rock a re-imagination could only be found in the hands and minds of some of the very few that practice the art.

Steve Hackett, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. Gig Review. full post

(672 words, estimated 2:41 mins reading time)

Leanne Robinson, Gig Review. Mello Mello, Liverpool Sound City 2013.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Leanne Robinson’s voice might still be resonating around the confines of Mello Mello for about a week after Sound City packs away its bags and heads off into the sunset with the glowing knowledge of a job well done. Such was the passion in which Ms. Robinson sang; the fever in her voice and the very cool and confident way in which she holds herself made this young woman a great asset to Sound City.

Leanne Robinson, Gig Review. Mello Mello, Liverpool Sound City 2013. full post

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

The Common Tongues, Gig Review. Mello Mello, Liverpool Sound City 2013.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is nothing common or ordinary about The Common Tongues. The Brighton band knows how to extend their reach and go beyond the normal boundaries that can be artificially enforced with a studio setting. If a band or artist can sound just as interesting, quirky and simply inspiring live as they can whilst mixers are around, the very machines that produce the sometimes, not always, contrived, then they must be worth checking out and telling people about in the pubs and clubs afterwards.

The Common Tongues, Gig Review. Mello Mello, Liverpool Sound City 2013. full post

(445 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Allie Bradley, Gig Review. Mello Mello, Liverpool Sound City 2013.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Saturday of Liverpool Sound City is traditionally the time to get loose, to enjoy, hopefully, the sunshine and the music that can be found in every size of venue in the city, from the small to the extremely grand, is there to be taken in and take an enormous amount of pleasure in. Nowhere is this taken as seriously as at Mello Mello, a fine venue which has come close to forced closure due to the threat of increased rent but with the help of petitions and the good nature of the music lovers in the area the sounds continue. In Northern Ireland’s Allie Bradley, to all those that signed the petition and made a concerted effort of keeping the venue open, music lovers got their reward.

Allie Bradley, Gig Review. Mello Mello, Liverpool Sound City 2013. full post

(369 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Roy Dahan, Gig Review. Brink, Liverpool Sound City 2013.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Such is the lure of Liverpool, its long standing reputation of being a port of call for any musician that wants to play in front of an appreciative audience, one that is open and receptive as long as you are sincere in the love of your craft and not just playing along till something else comes along. Such is that reputation that artists will literary travel thousands of miles just to play a half hour set.

Roy Dahan, Gig Review. Brink, Liverpool Sound City 2013. full post

(367 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Anna Corcoran, Gig Review. Brink, Liverpool Sound City 2013.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Down the quieter road of Parr Street, Brink had opened its doors as a more sedate setting in which to have live music on during Sound City. The relaxed attitude, the status as a charity run venue all combining to make an evening’s entertainment, especially that utilising the keyboard and the person’s vocal talent, well worth catching. Even with the backdrop of various machines going off every so often, blenders for the smoothies for example, couldn’t detract from those who had waited patiently to see Anna Corcoran perform a selection of songs from her various E.P.s, including the superb The Show which has been getting rave reviews from all quarters of the music world.

Anna Corcoran, Gig Review. Brink, Liverpool Sound City 2013. full post

(411 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

All We Are, Gig Review. Leaf, Liverpool Sound City 2013.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

All We Are have been away from the stages and venues of Liverpool for a while and it is fair to say that the audiences have missed this eclectically brilliant band from their schedule of groups to see live. With Leaf having kicked off their weekend of music in the Sound City 2013 with some superb music, some that might be impossible to replicate again it was that good, there are very few groups that could have matched the intensity of what had gone on before but then there are very few bands like All We Are.

All We Are, Gig Review. Leaf, Liverpool Sound City 2013. full post

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

Rachael Wright And The Good Sons, Gig Review. Leaf, Liverpool Sound City 2013.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It was always going to take something magical, something just as interesting and musically terrific as the blindingly excellent Natalie McCool, to keep the evening at Leaf in the same rich vein of form that the audience had enjoyed all night. Sound City on its first day had lived up to its billing as being one of the best city festivals the U.K. and in the Leaf venue it had more that surpassed the high expectation thrust upon it. With Natalie McCool having departed the stage after her blistering and sensational set, perhaps it was only fitting that the cool Rachael Wright and The Good Sons took the challenge that lay before them.

Rachael Wright And The Good Sons, Gig Review. Leaf, Liverpool Sound City 2013. full post

(329 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)