Tag Archives: Luke Moore

The Silence Between Us, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Aaron Bladen, Elissa Cooper, Mica Young, Daniel Henry, Kieron Mason, Ian Smith, Laura Mutch, Catherine Kenny.

Musicians: Pete King, Daniel Greenwood, Luke Moore, Beth Pollard.

Depending on your age, you might remember the glares, even visual examinations, some men received when they came back from the fields, deserts and jungles of World War Two, perhaps even closer to home in time, the Falklands’ War, the sacrifices made on both sides of the divide in Ireland, any conflict where the senseless of killing another human being for being in a different coloured uniform is brought home in the eyes of the affected and the screams that burn into the hearts of their loved ones; these are the memories of the sneer, the accusations of somehow being less of man just because you don’t want to die.

The Silence Between Us, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(506 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Thom Morecroft, Gig Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Thom Morecroft at the Unity Theatre, September 2014. Photograph By Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Sometimes, occasionally, as rare as a night in which the stars seem to come out and take a bow for the beauty they provide and in which the moon trespasses on the Sun’s heavenly position in the sky, something just catches the attention of a collection of musicians and they give a performance so exciting, so unreal that even the moon knows it’s time to go hiding in the moment of eclipse.

Thom Morecroft, Gig Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(471 words, 1 image, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

First Release For Ambitious Collaboration Project As Operation Lightfoot Gets Underway.

The first single from Operation Lightfoot is available from 18^th August and features Vanessa Murray as the first of twelve guest performers to feature on an exciting new recording project.

The debut single Eighteen was co-written by Vanessa and Operation Lightfoot founder Luke Moore and recorded with Jon Lawton at Crosstown Studios in Liverpool. The song is the story of a young musician that is on the road to success and the sacrifices she may have to make along the way.

“I feel very lucky to have worked with a group of people I get along with and that are so passionate about making something great” says Vanessa. “Eighteen has been a great experience”.

First Release For Ambitious Collaboration Project As Operation Lightfoot Gets Underway. full post

(306 words, 1 image, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

The Last Five Years, Theatre Review. The Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Helen Carter, Stephen Fletcher.

There are times when a production can simply not be bettered, it has the most fantastic response to it and lingers on well in the memory as one of the absolute highlights of the theatre year. That production is The Last Five Years, it was considered by all who saw it at the Actor’s Studio, a rip roaring accomplished piece of art from start to finish. That is where the two productions stop being comparable, as Stephen Fletcher, one of the finest young actors in Liverpool and the exceptional Helen Carter bought Jason Robert Brown’s play back to the stage for the second time and in one fell swoop made it a gleaming example of artistic beauty, of tremendous fortitude and belief and overall simple elegance.

The Last Five Years, Theatre Review. The Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(445 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

The 286, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow.

Liverpool Sound of Vision Rating 9/10

It doesn’t take long to fall in love, the barest of fleeting glimpses or sounds on a radio can be enough for anybody to start a life-times affair with the most defining of bands. Whether it is the intoxicating thought that the music supplied by The 286, is industrious, soul grabbing, slips you a crafty but loving wink in between each affectionate and amorous note or that it brings back so many memories of the only band to have ever tried anything as daring and eclectic as anything that one of Birmingham’s most favourite bands, E.L.O., ever conceived.

The 286, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. full post

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

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Stephen Fletcher.

Sat across the table from Stephen Fletcher at the café in the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall listening to the young actor/producer talk enthusiastically and with a vast knowledge of the theatre at his disposal is something everybody should experience in their life at least once, if they are fortunate then it is something the gracious actor will always afford you. In the last year Stephen has been very busy, he has put together one of the great plays of the last festive period in the critically acclaimed play Mam! I’m ere! and been a part of some of the most challenging and enjoyable productions to have taken part in Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Stephen Fletcher. full post

(2680 words, estimated 10:43 mins reading time)

Science Of The Lamps, Gig Review. Threshold Festival, The Picket, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

All over the Baltic Quarter in Liverpool, bands and artists had been thrilling audiences during the second day of the Threshold Festival but there can’t have been many more that were as highly anticipated, nor as keenly appreciated as Science of the Lamps. The near impossible task of getting perhaps one of the largest gatherings of musicians and singers on a stage anywhere in Liverpool over the weekend, including the ever superb musician Luke Moore on cello and keyboards and the wonderful vocal talent of Mersey Wylie alongside the woman of the weekend Kaya Herstad Carney.

Science Of The Lamps, Gig Review. Threshold Festival, The Picket, Liverpool. full post

(440 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Science Of The Lamps, E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is something unerringly beautiful about the music of Science of the Lamps. Almost mythical in its presentation, stunning in its creation and just that pinch of Nordic noir/folk fairytale that filters through and gives the eponymous E.P. the type of storytelling and poetic mixture that craves attention.

Science Of The Lamps, E.P. Review. full post

(363 words, 1 image, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)