Tag Archives: The Cavern

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Supplement. An Interview With Mark And Helen Luker (Fun Of The Pier).

The International Pop Overthrow is one event that shouldn’t be missed, regardless of where in the world founder and organiser David Bash takes it, it is a chance to come across the unexpected, the divine and the surprisingly brilliant.

The Cavern and the Cavern Pub have long had the honour of hosting Liverpool’s week of crowning new idols and loved musicians, of making new bands to admire and urge on. Amongst them is the fascinating duo of Helen of Mark Luker, or as they are better known as Fun of the Pier. It is a duo that gives an awful lot of pleasure on stage and one that really should have a bigger following.

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(1830 words, estimated 7:19 mins reading time)

Fast Camels, Gig Review. The Cavern, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There are times when hearing an album by a band finds you sadly lacking the understanding of what to expect when they play live. There is no substitute for watching the group plough a very individual style and perform incredibly on stage and away from the waking dreams you have as the stereo enacts for its own amusement what it wants you to think on how the gig will go. As the lights dimmed in The Cavern, the expectation in those who had lasted the distance of the late session of music, soared and awoke the reason for many in which to take heart with the Fast Camels.

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Kontiki Suite, Gig Review. The Cavern, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 81/2/10

There is a special place surely reserved in anyone’s heart for a band when they play a track that just really just gives the said organ a jolt of undisguised passion, of catching the listener unawares of its importance to them. It can happen a lot with a band that you may have followed for years, it happens less frequently with a group that has not appeared on your in built radar and yet for anyone watching Kontiki Suite in The Cavern Club on a warm Saturday night in May; that feeling of first time love was like lightning hitting the Eiffel Tower and creating a spark so wide it would light up Paris.

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(389 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

The Wellgreen, Gig Review. The Cavern, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow, 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The International Pop Overthrow would be an awful lot poorer if the abundance of great acts north of the dotted line that separates Scotland and England found themselves bereft of a slot or ten inside The Cavern over the seven day period in which the music plays lovingly down the ears of all who attend. In the year in which the key question of Independence for Scotland gathers pace, the music that the nation is proud of producing is still very important to both sides of that in question line.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Charlie Griffiths

For anyone who has caught Charlie Griffiths either on stage in one of her many theatre productions or hearing her sing as part of the duo Killa Sista, it is easy to see why so many critics and, more importantly, audiences love her. She has numerous credits to her name, her first television appearance in Children’s Ward at the age of 13 led onto other  television roles. Her love of theatre has seen her star in Road as Helen, the title role in Everyman, Emma in A Liverpool Tale and Gloria in Return To Forbidden Planet.

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Marseille, Gig Review. The Cavern, Liverpool.

Photograph by Ian D.Hall

Originally published by L.S.Media. September 11th 2009.

Twenty five years after Marseille last played the Cavern, the band made a triumphant return and rolled away the void that had been created when they decided to call it a day. A band that in all honesty should never have been allowed to fade away.

Some people might find it hard to believe that this was a band that was at the forefront of the start of the genre of The New Wave of British Heavy Metal and enjoyed much success, touring with some of the biggest names around and winning the first coveted battle of the bands competition.

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The Small Fakers, Gig Review. The Cavern, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. November 8th 2009.

No matter your age, if you love music there will be a band that you listen to on a regular basis that you never will or got to see play live. Sometimes you might be fortunate and only like the current bands that dominate your formative musical years and get to experience them all.

But what do you do if your taste of music straddles a time period before you were born! Ah yes it’s easy to lament the lack of chance of seeing Queen with Freddie or Meatloaf, after all they were touring long after I got into music and it is my own fault for not making more of an effort to see them.

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Steve Hogarth, Gig Review. The Cavern, Liverpool.

Steve Hogarth at the Cavern. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by L.S. Media. May 17th 2010.

Steve Hogarth last entertained his loyal Liverpool fans nearly 18 months ago when he played at St Brides Church, a cold evening that was warmed up beautifully by Steve’s vocal talent and the joy and warmth that was felt by the audience.

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(382 words, 1 image, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

The Real People, Gig Review. The Cavern, Liverpool.

 

Originally published by L.S. Media. April 22nd 2011.

If pushed for an answer, where would you say that Britpop started? Some will stand and yell Oasis till they are blue in the face; others will cite the works of Blur and the talent that is in no doubt in the shape of Damon Albarn, Graham Coxen, Alex James and Dave Rowntree. If pushed a little harder there are those that would even declare that without Pulp, the other two wouldn’t matter and for certain Jarvis Cocker has his moments; however to anybody in Liverpool you only have one answer that has to be The Real People.

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