Tag Archives: o2 Academy

The Bad Shepherds To Perform At The o2 Academy, Liverpool.

Troy Dunkley at the Bilston Robin in 2010. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Adrian Edmondson is one of the most iconic faces on television. As part of the superb Comic Strip Presents…team, Vivyan in the cult anarchic series The Young Ones and in recent years appearing in programmes as diverse as Holby City and Hell’s Kitchen.  He also has a huge musical background and in the last few years has performed with the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Idiot Bastard Band and more notably, the exceptional Folk/ Punk crossover group The Bad Shepherds with Troy Dunkley and Andy Dinan.

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Radiate To Support Charlotte Church At The o2 Academy, Liverpool.

Marcella Rick in action in Williamson Square. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

One of most exciting young bands to emerge in 2012, the five young women that make up Radiate, have announced that are to support Charlotte Church when she performs at the o2 Academy, Liverpool on February 15th.

Onomey Ovien, Marcella Rick, Alice McCormack, Dominique Daly and Marietta Daly play music with a sense of temptation and desire and their vocal harmonies are refreshing in what sometimes is a cynical world.

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Buckle Tongue, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.

Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

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Merseyside undisputedly produces some great bands of every music genre that it is possible to list and yet somehow in amongst the maelstrom and cacophony of disparate tunes and compositions, heavy metal doesn’t get that much of a look in. Very few bands have touched upon the field of crashing and brutal guitars placed within the heart of a superb drum beat and told the tale in Liverpool. From out of the darkness come the Wirral’s Buckle Tongue and one of the new great bands to watch out for in 2013.

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Path Unknown, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.

Ben Jones of Path Unknown. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

 

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To perform your debut gig in the spotlight of the o2 Academy’s glare takes some supreme effort and fortitude, to achieve the appreciation of an audience when you are effectively a band member down and still sound extremely good takes a band that have a great future in front of them. For Path Unknown, all bodes well and they certainly won’t be unknown for long.

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Space, Gig Review. O2 Academy, Liverpool.

Tommy Scott at the 02 Academy, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

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If you are after a spectacular party to round off a fantastic year of music in Liverpool then you should look no further than the city’s own band, Space. The personnel may have changed since the heady days of the 1990’s but there is no doubting the essential and unique brand of cool that Tommy Scott, Franny Griffiths, Allan Jones, Phil Hartley and Ryan Clarke bring to the stage for the audience to have some serious fun too.

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The Mono L.P.’s Gig Review. O2 Academy, Liverpool.

Ste Reid at the o2 Academy, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

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As The Mono L.P.’s took to the stage at the o2 Academy, Liverpool, it was almost possible to see in the eyes of the five musicians, Luciano Verghini, Chris Barlow, Dan Beech, Ste Reid and Vicky Mutch, just how far they have come in the hearts and minds of Liverpool audiences in such a short space of time. Nothing is beyond them collectively or individually it seems, nothing much fazes them when they stand on stage together and it is great credit to the ability and tenacity of the group that they have become so well admired during that time.

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The Fratellis To Make A Comeback After Two Year Absence.

As part of a seven date tour, one of the most original acts to come out of Scotland since the start of the new century, The Fratellis are making a huge statement of intent by coming back together and making the o2 Academy, Liverpool one of their ports of call.

The band was a shot in the arm to the music world when they released the phenomenal successful Costello Music onto an unsuspecting U.K. audience in 2006. Songs such as the superb Chelsea Dagger, the sublime Vince the Loveable Stoner, Everybody Knows You Cried Last Night and the incredible Henrietta, there was nothing that Jon, Baz and Mince could do wrong. The music was infectious and well written, a real tour de force live.

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Mike Peters, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.

Mike Peters at the o2 Academy, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

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It has to be said that Mike Peters really is the epitome of musicians who never know how to sit still and take in their place in society, nor can he ever be accused of giving anything less than 100 percent when he is on stage. Whether as part of one of the finest bands to come out of Wales, The Alarm, his occasional forays into the world of Big Country of which he has done a splendid job fronting or when it is just him, a guitar and a harmonica; he never ever gives less than the crowd deserves.

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The Wicked Whispers, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.

photograph by Ian D. Hall

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When the Wicked Whispers play their music on stage, the most advisable thing to do is stand back, close your eyes and wallow in the excellent atmosphere and dream of more halcyon days.

One of the most unique bands to have come from the Liverpool area, the Wicked Whispers, have just finished a tour that has taken in London and Newcastle and now the group have come back home to show just exactly why the word is spreading beyond the confines of the home of popular music.

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The Sundowners, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.

Fiona Skelly, part of The Sundowners. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

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If you only remember one thing about 2012, consider this for as long as it takes, that the music of Liverpool has once again become a powerhouse, a powder keg of new bands that have come along and reminded music lovers of the city that there is much talent out there ready to be heard. Add to this the phenomenal and unbelievable aptitude that lies at the heart of The Sundowners.

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