In one of the hottest and keenly contested categories in this year’s Liverpool Music Awards, Natalie McCool, Anna Corcoran and Eva Peterson are all strong contenders for Female Artist of the Year 2013. Ms. McCool has had a phenomenal year with the release of her debut album and several high profile gigs in which she has wowed audience members and critics alike.
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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Anna Corcoran.
Anna Corcoran’s voice and beautiful melodies have earned her a great accolades and plaudits for her work, especially alongside her great friend Robert Vincent and since the release of her E.P., Anything Better, the owner of that recognisable voice has just kept growing in stature and quite rightly so.
Before she took to stage at The Unity Theatre, Anna took time out from the worries of the day to music world and relaxed in the café and loosened up before her show she spoke of her new video for the outstanding single The Show, her work on the E.P. and the reasons why she still calls Liverpool her home.
Cavern Records Presents The Best In New Music, Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
In the 1980s a brand new way of presenting music as a package appeared, the then much loved Now That’s What I Call Music collection which featured artists and groups such as Phil Collins, Heaven 17, Malcolm McClaren, The Human League and Simple Minds made its first appearance 30 years ago. In that three decades music has moved on, young musicians have made their way onto the scene and nowhere it seems is that energy more keenly felt in the U.K. than in the home of music, Liverpool.
Natalie McCool, Gig Review. Leaf, Liverpool Sound City 2013.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Natalie McCool is quite rightly considered one of the finest singer/songwriters in the north-west, either male or female. Her presence on stage is matched by her demeanour, confidence and stunning ability that once you have seen her play live once, you will go back time and time again to relish the sound you have heard. Whether as a solo intimate acoustic set or, as the growing trend seems to be, infront of an audience during Sound City 2013 that crowded the interior of Leaf to bursting point in the slim chance that they can catch a sight of her perform. One of the most talented in the region, more like one of the most eagerly anticipated acts in the country.
Natalie McCool. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Four tracks in to her debut album, Natalie McCool asks in an intense and mesmerizing way, “Have you ever played with fire?” The answer may very possibly be yes, human nature is all about reaching for the unattainable and the desirable, no matter the cost to our soul and sanity. However Natalie McCool doesn’t just play with the fire, she supplies it, stokes the furnace till it gets so hot it positively blows and all the while she does it with every ounce of her being throughout this astonishingly superb album.
Natalie McCool, Mello Mello. Gig Review.
Natalie McCool performing at Mello Mello. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Mello Mello may have been threatened with senseless closure earlier in the summer, thankfully this den of good music in the heart of the city centre, tucked neatly in amongst the bawdy and forlorn is still operating and still putting on nights of interesting and well crafted music. It is a good job really as those who watched Widnes musician Natalie McCool play her set with oodles of style may have wondered where else they could have caught this essential music maker if not for Mello Mello.