Tag Archives: Liverpool. (2014)

The Stranglers, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. (2014).

The Stranglers at the o2 Academy, Liverpool. 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

The Stranglers at the o2 Academy, Liverpool. 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

This is the Gospel according to the Men In Black, to the musicians who have shaped more than one generation’s musical taste; the men who stuck two fingers up to the doubters, the unbelievers, the down-right miserable and doom laden and who have had the final incredible laugh for the last 40 years. The sermon to the already converted and to those who have come along in the intervening years, the thank you to all who gave The Stranglers room in the heart and who filled the room at The Academy in Liverpool to bursting. The Gospel surely reads, “Thank You.”

The Stranglers, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. (2014). full post

(639 words, 1 image, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)

The Selecter, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. (2014)

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

No matter how many years go by, nothing ever really ever seems to change at all. No matter how hard you try to see the difference, time has not erased any of the anxiety or difficulties that affect ordinary lives.

However, sometimes you can’t have enough of Too Much Pressure though and with ever graceful Pauline Black and The Selecter making their way to Liverpool to celebrate the bands 35th anniversary, the pressure is absorbed, danced too, sang with great gusto and with an abandon that you would expect as perhaps arguably the greatest Ska band of the period rolled back the years and showed that class is always permanent.

The Selecter, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. (2014) full post

(662 words, estimated 2:39 mins reading time)