Tag Archives: Ian McNabb

Ian McNabb, Utopian. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Sir Thomas More, whose remains lay the crypt inside The Tower of London, got it wrong when he spoke of the nation having the chance to grasp of being a society built on utopia, like his own relics, his ideas were based on flawed theoretical thinking, a belief that what was under the thumb of the tyrant King Henry VIII was, despite being an imagined island, the epitome of English society, that this utopia, like a new Jerusalem evoked in later centuries was one in which England deserved to be recognised as a force for good.

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Liverpool Legend Ian McNabb Launches His Own Open Mic Night in Liverpool.

Ian Mcnabb is one of the great singer/songwriters to emerge from the 80’s Liverpool music scene. The founder and lead singer with chart toppers The Icicle Works, will be launching his very own ‘Open Mic’ night at Mathew Street Live on Mathew Street, Liverpool (above Eric’s) starting on Wednesday 7th May from 9pm – 1am. Entry is free.

“I’m pleased to report that I will be hosting a singer-songwriter night every Wednesday upstairs from Eric’s club starting next month. I hope to see as many of you there as possible. Come and play your music!” says Ian Mcnabb.

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Dominic Crane, Gig Review. The Crossing, South And City College, Birmingham.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

For anybody growing up in Birmingham in the 1960s, 70s and 80s and who moved away, coming back to the city only on the odd occasion is almost like visiting an alien world, a world that has changed beyond recognition in the days when the old Bull Ring Market dominated the skyline, when records were bought in handy shaped brown bags containing 10 singles for a pound, even if you didn’t know what you were getting till you unwrapped them like some weird and sometimes fruitful version of Pass The Parcel, and where walking down Digbeth High Street and up towards Deritend only meant that you were running the gauntlet of watching Trevor Francis or Alan Curbishly play at St. Andrews or you were on your way to take in some music at the Old Institute or The Dubliner.

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Ian McNabb, Eclectic Warrior. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If you come across Ian McNabb at a gig or sitting in a pub somewhere in Liverpool over the next few months, politely shake him by the hand and tell him what a fantastic and expansive recording Eclectic Warrior is. You would be doing one of Liverpool’s finest sons a great honour because it is not just fantastic, this is Ian McNabb, the man who can sing Pink Floyd harmonies with random strangers and make the interloper sound polished and professional, at his very, very best. Part belligerent, confrontational, creatively fiery and impassioned in his lyrics, wonderfully passionate in his music and if Great Things in 2010 was a huge stepping stone, this sees Ian leaping gaping chasms in the music cause.

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Ian McNabb, Head Like A Rock. 2013 Re-Mastered Edition.

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It is unusual for a re-master of an album to add anything more to a listeners overall enjoyment than when they first purchased the original recording. It is extraordinary to feel more than moved by the new recording, so moved that the lyrics seem and get underneath the skin to the point where you question what you didn’t hear all those years ago. Ian McNabb’s re-mastering of his 1994 classic Head Like a Rock has such an effect and it is advisable to have someone there to hold onto when listening to this incredibly personal and touching recording.

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Liverpool Music Awards 2012. The Dome, Liverpool.

Rebecca Ferguson and Melanie Chisholm with Elinor Phillips at the 2012 Liverpool Music Awards. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by Liverpool Live. The Liverpool Music Awards have been months in the planning and years in the making. As Janice Long, one of the legends of British broadcasting took to the stage at The Dome on Renshaw Street, the waiting was finally over and a room packed with great and the good of local music started to enjoy the celebration of what makes Liverpool undoubtedly the world capital of music.

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Ian McNabb, Great Things. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 26th 2010.

Great Things is the new and aptly named studio album by the likeable and genial Liverpudlian, Ian Mcnabb. In the four years since his last album, much has changed for his beloved city during that time and it seems that the change has rubbed off on Ian’s music and lyric writing.

The new album is an enjoyable treat of eclectic songs that cross over several different styles in a very easy and effortless way. Opening with the title track Great Things, Ian takes the listener on a detailed tour of his thoughts and musings. It certainly is simple to see why Ian’s music has continued to be popular as his use of comfortable guitar playing belies the emotions that are always just below the surface.

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