Tag Archives: Matt Breen

Matt Breen, Bold Street. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Bold Street, like other thoroughfares and byways, of alleys and parks and particular buildings in Liverpool, has its own particular set of memories held in the hearts of the local citizen who looks upon the city with pride, and the mind of those who may only visit the pavements and streets covered with musical and story-telling gold just once in their lives, but who carry the songs heard far off across the world. It is a memory that can always be counted on being captured by the questioning artist, a framing of the moment perhaps as the sculptor at the behest of time, carves light into the reminisce of youth.

Matt Breen, Bold Street. Single Review. full post

(426 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Matt Breen, All The Time. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

For all the intrusiveness and demands that the internet makes on our time, it has one great, thankfully creative good in which it cannot be faulted; the knowledge that a musician that you have seen grow and loved, and despite distance, can still make an appearance on your computer device of truth and thrill you with their latest creation.

Matt Breen, All The Time. Single Review. full post

(434 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Matt Breen, Not Guilty. Single Review (2015)

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Sometimes you have to go a long way from home to be appreciated, it never feels right but the journey, the experience only makes you stronger, wiser and perhaps more keen to prove people wrong. If it can work for The Beatles, if they can succeed by working their collective behinds off in Hamburg and come back to even greater acclaim in Liverpool, then it can work for anybody.

Matt Breen, Not Guilty. Single Review (2015) full post

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

Lennon, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Power, Matt Breen, Tom Connor, Jessica Dyas, Kirsten Foster, Ross Higginson, Adam Keast, Jonathan Markwood, Mark Newnham.

Even almost 33 years after John Lennon was cruelly and untimely taken from his fans and from the city of Liverpool and the world, his iconic memory still has the power, the absolute authority of spirit, in which to inspire and encourage rousing feelings of love and joy and ultimately the sadness of a life cut short well before his time.

Lennon, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(566 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

Matt Breen, Gig Review. Camp And Furnace, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Whether Matt Breen is performing acoustically or as part of some big electric effort which blows the cobwebs from the eco-system around him, there is no doubting this young man’s incredible appeal and honest likeability when watching him on stage and off it when you are in his company.

As part of the afternoons musical entertainment laid on at Camp and Furnace and with the craft fair in full swing, Matt Breen once more showed his mettle, his guile and charming disposition as he followed Gary Edward Jones and Nighthowl onto the stage and gave his usual high octane, even for an acoustic set, performance.

Matt Breen, Gig Review. Camp And Furnace, Liverpool. full post

(370 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

The Hummingbirds, Gig Review. The Atkinson, Southport.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

They are one of the great young bands and artists that call Liverpool their home. Alongside many others that in the last few years have made the city’s music addicts sit up and take notice of the new and tremendously exciting breed coming through, such as All We Are, Stealing Sheep, Path Unknown, Joe Symes and The Loving Kind, Only Child, Mono L.P.s, Matt Breen, Buckle Tongue, Rob Vincent and Carrianne Hayden, The Hummingbirds name has travelled far and wide, beyond the metaphorical city walls and out into the open world. People outside the city have once more discovered what makes Liverpool tick like no other in the U.K. and perhaps in the world.

The Hummingbirds, Gig Review. The Atkinson, Southport. full post

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

The Endings, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

George Harrison understood the heartache behind it, so much so he gave his solo album the title All Things Must Pass, that feeling and despairing knowledge that something has come to a natural finish, no matter how much people might clamour for it not to be true. For The Endings, the run was superb, a Liverpool band with a very big heart at its core, some great and incredible sounds and above all a belief that what they were doing was just another step in a long journey.

The Endings, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

The Cornmarket Acoustic Club in Liverpool Continues To Enthral And Entertain.

During the day, the streets that surround and hem in the business quarter into a hive of monetary activity, is awash with people going about their trades in the hope that the next big thing will come along and kick start a beleaguered and flat-lining economy. So many companies going bust and making more and more people unemployed and yet the pain goes on and the money continues to be looked for. Liverpool is better placed than many cities and towns in the U.K., for one the streets of the city also carry the hopes of the artistes, musicians and actors, painters, prophets and poets in a way that is unrivalled by any other city.

The Cornmarket Acoustic Club in Liverpool Continues To Enthral And Entertain. full post

(584 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

The Endings, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.

Matt Breen of the Endings. Picture by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by L.S. Media. April 16th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

When Matt Breen walked on stage at the Cavern Pub in 2011, armed with only a guitar, cracking lyrics and an attitude that you sometimes think is missing from new bands today; it wasn’t a stretch of the imagination to think of this young man, not even 17 at the time, and his excellent group The Endings, going further and better than is normally possible for a band so young.

The Endings, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool. full post

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