Tag Archives: Gig Review

Dave O’Grady, Gig Review. Leaf, Liverpool.

Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 21st 2012.

Dave O’Grady has had a busy year already in music terms and by being one of the support acts for Only Child’s E.P. launch at Leaf on Bold Street he managed to inspire and show a new audience what exactly the fuss is about his playing ability and incredible charm.

On stage he weaves a musical composition as if he were Faustus or the Pied Piper of Hamelin playing his music for his loyal followers, it is quite an astonishing feat for example to turn The Beastie Boys hit (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party), possibly one of the most iconic songs of the 1980’s and symbolic of American youth disaffection, into something rather beautiful and laconic.

Dave O’Grady, Gig Review. Leaf, Liverpool. full post

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

Room For Rent, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.

Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 16th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ***

Every band has to start somewhere; it is a basic fact of live music and of life and some don’t, for whatever reason, make it in the end.  However, sometimes the hint of promise is there from the start and even if there is a long way to go before the inevitable success; these are moments when the band first performs that makes it all worthwhile.

Room For Rent, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool. full post

(357 words, 1 image, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Brothers ‘N’ Bandits, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.

Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 16th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

If you are going to do a cover version of a song in your set as a young and up-coming band, make it a good one, preferably a hit record, and then stomp all over it in size ten shoes and take an eight pound mallet to it to tenderise and finally hold it up to the watching audience and say, “look this is how it should be done.” This is how Brothers ‘N’ Bandits treated the crowd at the o2 Academy to their version of Coldplay’s Yellow and it was magnificent to witness.

Brothers ‘N’ Bandits, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool. full post

(417 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Marillion, Gig Review. Corporation, Sheffield.

Steve Hogarth and Pete Trewavas in Sheffield. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 15th 2012.

It might not go down as the best gig in the world but for the 800 souls who packed themselves into the Corporation Club in Sheffield it was a night where the latest Marillion tour rolled into town. It was one that would have been on many calendars for months on end, carefully crossed off with diligent care until the last few days where the excitement would have got too much and the diligent x became a hurried scrawl.

Marillion, Gig Review. Corporation, Sheffield. full post

(594 words, 1 image, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

Brit Floyd, Gig Review. Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

Originally published by Music News. Com. July 7th 2012.

As the montage of clips from Pink Floyd’s prestigious career reminded the audience inside the Philharmonic Hall of what they were missing from the iconic British band’s lack of time out on the road in recent years, the members of Brit Floyd made their way out onto the stage and proceeded to give the crowd a master class lesson in music appreciation.

Brit Floyd, Gig Review. Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. full post

(526 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

The Stranglers, Gig Review And Small Interview. Carling Academy. Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. October 26th 2008.

The Stranglers came to Liverpool Academy on the back of a truly hectic night in Birmingham.

This was to be their tenth gig inside fourteen nights and in all honesty, you would wonder if it was beginning to take its toll on their health or on the music that they have spent so long honing.

The Stranglers, Gig Review And Small Interview. Carling Academy. Liverpool. full post

(606 words, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)

Midge Ure, Gig Review. Pacific Road, Birkenhead.

Originally published by L.S. Media. December 7th 2008.

It might come as a bit of a shock to find there is still a musician of note, who shuns the bigger arenas and is quite happy by playing songs that matter to him and his legion of fans in some of the more intimate venues around the country. Midge Ure has been, musically, through it all. Whether from his early days in the band Silk, the heady days of the New Romantic phase that swept Britain in the early to mid eighties with Ultravox and then as a solo artist whose voice has swept all before him.

Midge Ure, Gig Review. Pacific Road, Birkenhead. full post

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

Steve Hogarth, Gig Review. St. Brides Church, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. December 20th 2008.

Even with Elton John in town and providing what many would consider to be the main draw of the night down at the Albert Dock, those that attended Steve Hogarth’s “H” natural evening were treated to a night of fine music in the excellent venue of St Brides Church.

Steve Hogarth came down through the side aisle to thunderous applause from the packed out audience and proceeded to play songs from his Marillion career, favourite songs that have inspired him, a story from his days in How we live, requests from the audience and the odd Beatles track!

Steve Hogarth, Gig Review. St. Brides Church, Liverpool. full post

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

The Rats, Gig Review. Baby Blue, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. February 12th 2009.

Back in August of last year, two of the original members (Simon Crowe and Garry Roberts) of the Boomtown Rats got together with Peter Barton and Darren Beale to play their first full gig as The Rats at the Bilston Robin. It was a night that didn’t disappoint. Six months down the line and the band, if anything, have got tighter and an awful lot of the old magic was in evidence for the audience to see.

The Rats, Gig Review. Baby Blue, Liverpool. full post

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