Tag Archives: Status Quo

Status Quo, Backbone. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

There is always a hole, that no matter how it is filled in, concreted over or even disguised, that retains memory, we cannot look at the space that has been occupied with genuine passion or need without ever remembering what was originally there.

Such is the fate of Status Quo’s latest album, Backbone, a loving reminder of what a set of songs from one of Britain’s finest, and much loved bands but one more than coloured in sadness and the feeling of the motion than in the pleasing urgency and centre stage exuberance than the fans, and even the general public, would be used to, or even arguably expect.

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Status Quo, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. (2016).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The devout and the inspired will always go to the final preaching of the long lived and the elegantly able; like a fine wine served at room temperature in a Guernsey hotel, the taste is enough to feel inebriated just to be in the company of the exulted and prime music stalwarts. For the fans of Status Quo they were not about to allow their main hero of Francis Rossi or the memory of the band that started out all those decades ago to simply fade into the realm of acoustic sessions, this final night of the last ever electric tour in the U.K. was to be a celebration of all things Quo.

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(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Status Quo, Bula Quo! Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Even the disinterested and unfathomable will concede somewhere, no matter how begrudgingly and with fists clenched in anger, that Status Quo must be doing something right to have released 30 albums and over 70 singles. The music that in part defined an era for their fans still has the power to get a broad smile from almost anyone at some point, to nod in agreement should it come on a pub jukebox and enjoy the brief respite the simply crafted songs offer. It is up-beat and sometimes can be shockingly great stuff.

Status Quo, Bula Quo! Album Review. full post

(375 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)