Tag Archives: Mersey Wylie

Mersey Wylie, The Skin I Live In. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

In opening up our souls to love we find ways in which to deal with the darkness that stalks our everyday existence, it might be one that makes us breathe a little harder, our pulse that dwells otherwise unhindered to spark with fire, fury and beauty, we might fall, we could rise, whatever happens we must heed that which speaks to us inside and perhaps find a way to stride like a giant through castle halls and say that no matter what is thrown at us we can deal, we can be assured of hope with The Skin I Live In.

Mersey Wylie, The Skin I Live In. E.P. Review. full post

(349 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The applause is long, whistles of appreciation hit the pleasantly decorated eaves above the audience’s head, the walls of the playground that is the Studio 2 on Parr Street have shaken with the sound of a woman’s magnificence hitting an all-time high, and somewhere in each attendee’s heart, a passion could be visibly be seen to stir has been woken, an appetite, a hunger they never knew they had, has been evidently awoken; and all in the cause of Mersey Wylie taking her much deserved bow at the end of a night which has been remarkable, unequalled.

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool. full post

(509 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Liverpool Loves Festival, Pier Head, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Living up to, and going beyond the pressure is what separates the good and the enjoyable from the legends of the future. It cannot after all be easy to live up to the shadows that a much admired name bestows, neither can it be taken in the same vein when you have already produced one of the musical performances of the year so far.

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Liverpool Loves Festival, Pier Head, Liverpool. full post

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

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Strings And Things, Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10

Some people are just destined to be on the stage and become the natural performer that fortune and Kismet nod their approvals for, for the future belongs to them.

In Mersey Wylie, a woman whose very name holds fascination and the sense of History that the city of Liverpool enjoys to the very maximum, kismet has more than met its match. For the sheer presence of the woman as she sings has undergone so much revolution and wonderful development from the first moments she stood on the stage at Zanzibar just a mere 16 months ago. Already brimming with the cool and the collected, she now radiates gravitas and so much fun that Quality Street would do well to take notes on what fun actually is; fun it seems is to watch Mersey Wylie enjoy herself as she sings songs that captivate and take your heart prisoner.

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Strings And Things, Studio 2, Liverpool. full post

(546 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Palm Sugar, Liverpool.

mersey wylie at Palm Sugar, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Sunday evenings can be a time of reflection, the chance to catch up on some time alone reading from a stack of books that you keep putting off, or even plunging head first into the afterthought of dish cleaning and ironing whilst one eye is on whatever the television companies believe you can cope with and allowing one side of your brain to doze off in bliss ahead of what passes for another week of toil.

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Palm Sugar, Liverpool. full post

(508 words, 1 image, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Pete Wylie, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Close your eyes and think for a minute of one of the men and women who exemplifies the whole Liverpool sound, the charm and the no-nonsense, the humour and the artistic vision all wrapped up in lyrics that make you both beam with pride and raise a fist in solidarity alongside. The sound you hear is one that you might not have heard for a while, the tone of voice still sweet, the manner of the anger and resentment to some still intense and charismatic and the utter magnetism of the performer is such that daring to take a peek through gripped and straining fingers becomes too much. For it is true Pete Wylie, the man who has a street map of his home city indelibly stamped into the very fabric of his D.N.A., is back thrilling audiences once more.

Pete Wylie, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(630 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The rich vein of life, the tapestry that weaves its way through the streets, through iconic buildings such as The Bombed out Church of St. Luke’s, the radical nature of two opposing buildings of faith being at opposite ends of one of the most artistic streets in the city and to perhaps the greatest single collection of music venues and theatres anywhere in the country in which thousands of people get to show their devotion to the natural calling of entertainment, continues from one generation to the other.

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(554 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Mersey Wylie.

To have seen someone become the person they are artistically is one of life’s greatest pleasures. To have watched a talent flourish and blossom is a thrill that sometimes defies words. From having watched in awe as the sound of a young woman took tentative steps and be beguiling even in the realms of student radio and onto a stage infront of hundreds can only surely make you smile. For Mersey Wylie this coming weekend is going to be the biggest step yet as she steps from behind many a shadow and shows the audience at Zanzibar that the Wylie name is something that will forever associated with the city of Liverpool.

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(1314 words, estimated 5:15 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)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Supplement, An Interview With Luke Moore.

In a city dominated by musicians who were either born within reach of the lifeblood that feeds the city, The River Mersey, or those that came to Liverpool to study at L.I.P.A. or any other of the institutions that makes Liverpool the cultural hub of the country, too come across a man from Stechford in Birmingham who has become part of the music scene is a thrill.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Supplement, An Interview With Luke Moore. full post

(1939 words, estimated 7:45 mins reading time)