Tag Archives: Gig Review

Trevor Moss And Hannah Lou, Gig Review. Birmingham Symphony Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Being asked to support Tori Amos on her latest tour must feel in some cases akin to finding a winning lottery ticket from a couple of months previous and then finding its worth more than you imagined. Whilst there have been many over the years who have this very immense privilege of working with arguably one of the greatest in depth lyric writers of the last twenty years, none perhaps have seemed to enjoy the sensation as much as Trevor Moss and Hannah Lou.

Trevor Moss And Hannah Lou, Gig Review. Birmingham Symphony Hall. full post

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

Little Sparrow, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool.

Little Sparrow at the Studio 2, Liverpool 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Although some artists grow on you over time, there is an argument for the thought that your first opinion of them is normally the one that is correct. With life becoming far too fast to keep up at times before the next trend or even whim, the next vogue act or person in favour on television. Sometimes you have to make a stand, draw a long line around yourself and say, bear with me as I really want to savour this thanks and in Little Sparrow, the line demands to painted over in several coats of luminous yellow paints and a few traffic stops signs flashing stop for good measure.

Little Sparrow, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool. full post

(455 words, 2 images, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Susie Jones, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool.

Susie Jones at Studio 2 in Liverpool May 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In a night that was filled to overflowing with very cool and deserving female musicians making all the headlines inside Studio 2 on Parr Street, to open up ahead of the likes of Little Sparrow, Ingrid Frosland and the superb Norwegian band Kalandra might be considered a tad daunting. However, for Susie Jones, daunting is just another word for showing exactly what you are made of and watching her and her two fellow musicians on stage, the equally cool Dave Parker and Rob Kentell, daunting was a by word for secure and musically affluent.

Susie Jones, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool. full post

(366 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Michael Bolton, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Michael Bolton, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is a certain satisfaction to be gleaned from watching Michael Bolton on stage. The sheer effortlessness in which he sings, the manner of his performance and the smooth content feel of the music grabs an audience from the very beginning and long after he has left the stage there are still fans glued to their seats, mentally and physically exhausted by the intense feelings that have come from one person, one band, so utterly captivated by the magnetism of the song.

Michael Bolton, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

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

Lucy May, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To walk on stage infront of audience as a virtual unknown, to throw yourself upon the musical mercy of an audience that had been building themselves up for the main event, to do this whilst the spotlight glares down upon you and in some sort of electrical judgment has your life in the claws of its wiry hands and give a set of your own songs the type of true belief usually found in someone whose established credentials has seen them through a few decades; then you know you are witnessing the start of something that could go a long way to being a star of their generation.

Lucy May, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Rick Wakeman, Gig Review. Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Rick Wakeman, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are some things that are well worth the wait, even if you didn’t realise just why you had waited for them until the first note came crashing down around your senses and you were transported through time and the love of literature to a point of sheer bliss.

Rick Wakeman, Gig Review. Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(531 words, 1 image, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Ian Anderson, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

For the audience who made their way to one of the final nights of rock to be heard in the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall before its anticipated make over, for the band on stage who entertained them solidly for over two hours, there is at times nothing like Living In The Past; especially when it comes to witnessing the legendary Ian Anderson on stage.

Ian Anderson, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(629 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Emma Stevens, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

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

It took a smile, the easiest of human reflexes and the most disarming to understand that this was going to be a set in which love would not just be felt but would in turn become admiration and fully encompassed respect. For Emma Stevens, the smile she wore for almost the entire set inside Zanzibar was not one of falseness, not just placed there in which to entrance an audience, but one of the most honest beams you ever likely to see on stage by a musician as they perform a set of music that just stole the heart.

Emma Stevens, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

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

Alexandra Jayne, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. (April 2014)

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It may be the Easter break for many students up and down the country but that doesn’t mean that they either unwind over the spoils of Cadbury wars and gargantuan eggs, nor for the benefit of their own sanity or health hitting every single book for 24 hours a day ready for the impending exams that naturally hove into view once the last wrapper has been dispatched to its fiery hell.

Alexandra Jayne, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. (April 2014) full post

(481 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

TJ And Murphy, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

TJ and Murphy provided the harmonic dichotomy on a stage that had been and would be dominated in the early part of the evening by two female musicians, one on her own but with a voice that could break down barriers and playfully tease affection out of the sulkiest stone and the other whose refreshingly bright and breezy attitude reminded the world that a smile can be the most effective weapon in anyone’s arsenal.

TJ And Murphy, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

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