Penguin cafe at The Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There may well have been more instruments on stage than you would find in the front window of a well-stocked music shop and more performers on stage than you would notes on a piano but each one was more than needed to give the rich, almost delicate sound demanded by the ensemble of musicians that make up the very talented and very cool Penguin Café.