Tag Archives: The Cavern Club

Northern Sugar, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7^1/12/10

How you deal with last minute adversity is how you can be perceived by an audience. Many is the time when a group of any genre persuasion has seen disaster heading straight their way, like an American College comedy being completely misplaced in British cinemas, and have panicked and the start of many an argument come their way. It is inevitable and it is part of life. If you greet that split second choice between carrying on and making an audience still enjoy the gig and respect you all the more then arguably as a band you have succeeded.

Northern Sugar, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014. full post

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

Vicente Prats, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8^1/2/10

The spirit of The International Pop Overthrow isn’t perhaps in the meaning of Pop but in the two words either side of it, International, for which it always is and Overthrow.

International is fairly self-explanatory when it comes to watching a lot of music from as far away as you can think of and the exotic nature in which those bands play, the beautiful way a band from Spain can enlighten your day just as much as group as close to home as coming from the same part of the city as the wandering visitor to the Cavern Club. Overthrow though should perhaps arguably be looked upon as overthrowing not the old order of pop supremoes, who have given so much pleasure, especially the period between 1963 and 1988, but the overthrowing of your mind and opening it up to a realm of exciting new possibilities. It isn’t perhaps Revolution but evolution.

Vicente Prats, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014. full post

(397 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

The Springtime Anchorage, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * *

In amongst it all, life throws you the occasional musical curve ball in which to relish. At any festival it impossible to see every band, especially when the organisers find 140 of them in which to treat your taste buds to. All you can do is see the ones you really want to see and then hope you have enough left in the stamina box to see a couple that have alerted your radar and in which to check out.

The Springtime Anchorage, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014. full post

(363 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Alison Green, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Geoffrey Chaucer neglected to tell one story when penning the grand uncle of English Literature classics, the Tale of Alison Green.

Much debt is owed to The Canterbury Set of musicians who made their mark on certain specific genres over the years, the history of the Kent City, nestling deep as the spiritual home of the country and offering a path to pilgrims over the century and as place which once visited should never be forgotten. Now add all these reasons together and intensify them with a young musician by the name of Alison Green and you have all the ingredients of powerful sonnet or lengthy adoring poem in which the writer would have been proud to have placed somewhere between The Wife of Bath’s Tale and the upstanding Knights Tale.

Alison Green, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014. full post

(596 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

Sons Of Jet, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There must be something in the Merseyside air that draws James Styring back to Liverpool and away from his home in Lincolnshire. The smell of the past, the passion that still seeps out of every pore, every venue and the recapturing of the excitement that gave Liverpool the right to say with pride that it was and always will be the capital of culture, for James Styring and his band Sons Of Jet, that passion is something they capture with their music and the that long loved sound that is forever entwined in the Liverpool air, transfers easily to the flat country fields of Lincolnshire.

Sons Of Jet, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. 2014. full post

(456 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Midland Railway, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. 2014.

Midland Railway at The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow, 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7 ^1/2/ 10

There is arguably nothing better than coming across a band with a sense of humour when the day has been filled with powerful meaningful songs, tracks that have exploded your mind and set the bran on a semi quaver rush. The art of the whimsy, of lyrics that speak at times more eruditely than the impassioned unveiled contempt and derision quite rightly aimed at those the general public are forced to stomach being in power, whimsy and humour is a very powerful tool and in the hands of Midland Railway, led by Nick Lote from Harbourne in Birmingham, the humour of the band shines through.

Midland Railway, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. 2014. full post

(389 words, 2 images, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

The Last Fakers, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. 2014.

The Last Fakers at The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The International Pop Overthrow is one of those occasions in the Liverpool music calendar where to just wander into The Cavern Club and take in some music for a short while is to be expected and roundly welcomed. The chance should you feel inclined to come off the street after a busy day of work or even the playful art of shopping in your attempt to make the day go past and watch perhaps half an hour of music before making your way home.

The Last Fakers, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. 2014. full post

(517 words, 1 image, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

AqPop, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. 2014

AqPop at the Cavern Club as part of the 2014 International Pop Overthrow. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7 ^1/2/10

Liverpool is more than used to the music venues of Liverpool filling the local ears with contented understanding of its Norwegian artists who have made the city their home. It is one of the many strengths of the city that it embraces, not only the huge links between its Viking heritage and Scouse, but the immense influx of well-written and totally eclectic and narrative songs.

AqPop, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. 2014 full post

(356 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

The Sugarmen, Gig Review. The Cavern Club.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The Sugarmen have built up a steady reputation, one that a sweaty, sultry night in Liverpool’s The Cavern Club can only further enhance. Presented by Radio Merseyside’s legendary local music champion Dave Monks, The Sugermen gave a blistering account of themselves on what can only be described a scintillating night.

The Sugarmen, Gig Review. The Cavern Club. full post

(466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Dlugokecki, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Dlugokecki may be a word that looks as if it is designed to trip you up in a big way. Like those playground bullies of your schooldays that hung about near the lockers and stuck their foot out as you passed them and then laughed themselves into apoplexy as you fought to get back up with some semblance of dignity. Thankfully the band that bears the name are nothing of the sort, they are pleasant, self- effacing and with a front man who looks as if he the sweetest guy in the world. The name may be hard to pronounce but the music they play rolls of the tongue like Southampton legend Matt Le Tissier stroking a free kick home with an easy elegance.

Dlugokecki, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow. full post

(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)