Tag Archives: Gig Review

Northern Sugar, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7^1/12/10

How you deal with last minute adversity is how you can be perceived by an audience. Many is the time when a group of any genre persuasion has seen disaster heading straight their way, like an American College comedy being completely misplaced in British cinemas, and have panicked and the start of many an argument come their way. It is inevitable and it is part of life. If you greet that split second choice between carrying on and making an audience still enjoy the gig and respect you all the more then arguably as a band you have succeeded.

Northern Sugar, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014. full post

(376 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Vicente Prats, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8^1/2/10

The spirit of The International Pop Overthrow isn’t perhaps in the meaning of Pop but in the two words either side of it, International, for which it always is and Overthrow.

International is fairly self-explanatory when it comes to watching a lot of music from as far away as you can think of and the exotic nature in which those bands play, the beautiful way a band from Spain can enlighten your day just as much as group as close to home as coming from the same part of the city as the wandering visitor to the Cavern Club. Overthrow though should perhaps arguably be looked upon as overthrowing not the old order of pop supremoes, who have given so much pleasure, especially the period between 1963 and 1988, but the overthrowing of your mind and opening it up to a realm of exciting new possibilities. It isn’t perhaps Revolution but evolution.

Vicente Prats, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014. full post

(397 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Fast Camels, Gig Review. The Cavern, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There are times when hearing an album by a band finds you sadly lacking the understanding of what to expect when they play live. There is no substitute for watching the group plough a very individual style and perform incredibly on stage and away from the waking dreams you have as the stereo enacts for its own amusement what it wants you to think on how the gig will go. As the lights dimmed in The Cavern, the expectation in those who had lasted the distance of the late session of music, soared and awoke the reason for many in which to take heart with the Fast Camels.

Fast Camels, Gig Review. The Cavern, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014. full post

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

Kontiki Suite, Gig Review. The Cavern, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8^1/2/10

There is a special place surely reserved in anyone’s heart for a band when they play a track that just really just gives the said organ a jolt of undisguised passion, of catching the listener unawares of its importance to them. It can happen a lot with a band that you may have followed for years, it happens less frequently with a group that has not appeared on your in built radar and yet for anyone watching Kontiki Suite in The Cavern Club on a warm Saturday night in May; that feeling of first time love was like lightning hitting the Eiffel Tower and creating a spark so wide it would light up Paris.

Kontiki Suite, Gig Review. The Cavern, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014. full post

(389 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

The Wellgreen, Gig Review. The Cavern, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow, 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The International Pop Overthrow would be an awful lot poorer if the abundance of great acts north of the dotted line that separates Scotland and England found themselves bereft of a slot or ten inside The Cavern over the seven day period in which the music plays lovingly down the ears of all who attend. In the year in which the key question of Independence for Scotland gathers pace, the music that the nation is proud of producing is still very important to both sides of that in question line.

The Wellgreen, Gig Review. The Cavern, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow, 2014. full post

(410 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Sons Of Jet, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There must be something in the Merseyside air that draws James Styring back to Liverpool and away from his home in Lincolnshire. The smell of the past, the passion that still seeps out of every pore, every venue and the recapturing of the excitement that gave Liverpool the right to say with pride that it was and always will be the capital of culture, for James Styring and his band Sons Of Jet, that passion is something they capture with their music and the that long loved sound that is forever entwined in the Liverpool air, transfers easily to the flat country fields of Lincolnshire.

Sons Of Jet, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. 2014. full post

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

Midland Railway, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. 2014.

Midland Railway at The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow, 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7 ^1/2/ 10

There is arguably nothing better than coming across a band with a sense of humour when the day has been filled with powerful meaningful songs, tracks that have exploded your mind and set the bran on a semi quaver rush. The art of the whimsy, of lyrics that speak at times more eruditely than the impassioned unveiled contempt and derision quite rightly aimed at those the general public are forced to stomach being in power, whimsy and humour is a very powerful tool and in the hands of Midland Railway, led by Nick Lote from Harbourne in Birmingham, the humour of the band shines through.

Midland Railway, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. 2014. full post

(389 words, 2 images, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

The Last Fakers, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. 2014.

The Last Fakers at The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The International Pop Overthrow is one of those occasions in the Liverpool music calendar where to just wander into The Cavern Club and take in some music for a short while is to be expected and roundly welcomed. The chance should you feel inclined to come off the street after a busy day of work or even the playful art of shopping in your attempt to make the day go past and watch perhaps half an hour of music before making your way home.

The Last Fakers, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. 2014. full post

(517 words, 1 image, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

AqPop, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. 2014

AqPop at the Cavern Club as part of the 2014 International Pop Overthrow. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7 ^1/2/10

Liverpool is more than used to the music venues of Liverpool filling the local ears with contented understanding of its Norwegian artists who have made the city their home. It is one of the many strengths of the city that it embraces, not only the huge links between its Viking heritage and Scouse, but the immense influx of well-written and totally eclectic and narrative songs.

AqPop, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. 2014 full post

(356 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Tori Amos, Gig Review. Birmingham Symphony Hall.

Tori Amos, Birmingham Symphony Hall, May 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Expect the unexpected, anticipate the astonishing and most of all imagine the extraordinary, for when it comes to watching Tori Amos on stage you can do more than sit there and take in the majesty of it all.

Tori Amos, Gig Review. Birmingham Symphony Hall. full post

(557 words, 1 image, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)