Tag Archives: Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016.

Herringbone John, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016.

Herringbone John knows how light up an audience, how to get them started before a long luxurious day of music, there are very few that have that sense of calmness deeply imbedded into their souls.

We Shall Overcome had been the talk of the town all week, the abundance of bands that have made their way to be part of one of the most loved festivals but one with the most ideal of purest thoughts behind it was a staggering and sobering thought. The message spread, the word passed round that the music is a sure fire way to let people know that the world we live in at this moment in time is nothing short of rotten, a shadow of what a should be, a national disgrace that we have allowed people to get away with for too long.

Herringbone John, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016. full post

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

Pete King, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016.

To have one King in your life is to have good fortune, to acquire a second, that is the sound of destiny calling, of the riches of father-son genes and love for music being passed down and it is one that unfolds and reveals that talent is blessed and prosperous.

The sensational Derek King had already paved the way for Liverpool Acoustic’s contribution to the Saturday of We Shall Overcome, and as the day hurtled towards its natural end, as the music began to drift to the more electric sound elsewhere in the city, the final flourish, the flag raised high on a fantastic and well conducted afternoon of music inside Sound Food and Drink was unfurled by the next generation of King, the creative and magical Pete King.

Pete King, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016. full post

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

Lauren Davenport, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016.

There is a point in which all the music in the world, all that you have ever listened to all boils down to how it makes you feel, you can analyse the guitar, the fretwork, the notes, the absolute genius of it all, all you want. In the end though it comes down to the way the writer, the player, makes you feel and in Lauren Davenport there is an emotion waiting to pour itself out onto the page that is wonderfully unique.

Lauren Davenport, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016. full post

(329 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

Three Minute Hero, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016.

The element of surprise, some handle the responsibility, some faint at the prospect, some surprise, some last minute addition just make the whole experience so complete that it is hard to have imagined the day without it ever having been so. Last minute surprise to the bill at Sound Food and Drink for the We Shall Overcome was the ever impressive figure of Three Minute Hero, the champion of the lyric, Stuart Todd, and as always the man and the musician was on top form.

Three Minute Hero, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016. full post

(409 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Kevin Critchley, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016.

They used to say good things come to those who wait, that patience between events was the virtue in which to aspire; a hangover from the Victorian era in which we are still reaping the disaster of the times from; the painful way of believing that self denial is a good thing when it comes to appreciation. They used to say a lot of things but hardly any of it is relevant in 21st Century, especially the Victorian’s attitude to the poor and the destitute, the infirm and those to whom Government decisions effect negatively.

Kevin Critchley, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016. full post

(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Derek King, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016.

Liverpool’s acoustic scene would not be the same without the people who donate so much of their time and energy to make sure the musicians are heard and given a major platform to show their talent and their inspirations off to. It is point that should be mentioned often, that so many superb musicians play in the city and get their audience in the effort of Liverpool Acoustic; a realm of enlightened attitude which does all the greatest of service.

Derek King, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016. full post

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

Tom George, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016.

To combine poetry and music is a realm many dream of, yes the lyrical genius of many a song-writer is steeped in the stuff of Zeus’ sentiment to humanity, the gentle coaxing of the heart stopping shock and adoration laid down by Jove in the guise of the Balladeer to their latest muse. However, it takes great wit and fortitude to delve between the two states of deliberation, the twin flirtations with an audience and not be seen as anything than heroic whilst upon the stage.

Tom George, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016. full post

(414 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Katy McGrath, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016.

There should be a general arrangement, an agreement that not one single world leader could dare deny without fear of ridicule or the sound of derision coming from their vocal cynics, that Liverpool really is the home to the female musicians and female rock gods to who could also do a damn sight better job of running the ideologies of all countries. You can find them in every bar, venue and stage sending the guitar into long periods of apoplectic rage and long sequences of beauty that even the masters of the arched pessimist warmonger would have to concede, that they are more powerful, more engaging than all of the rank and file suits put together.

Katy McGrath, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016. full post

(449 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)