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The Fratellis, Half Drunk Under A Full Moon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The old ways are never gone, the initial love at first senses drawn are on no account ever forgotten, for after all the depth of feeling created by the first encounter are always there in the back of the mind, and are the ones that give rise to emotional, and perhaps spiritual, response.

However, we must evolve, out tastes change, our outlook begins to differ as we open those precious senses to other possibilities of expression, and as we grow with that love, so we must, by default or out of fidelity, appreciate that the object of our affection, has other things to say, and unfamiliar ways in which to communicate them.

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The Fratellis, Gig Review. Liverpool Olympia, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It always seems that the choice of music that a group comes out on stage to is a huge indicator of how the evening might progress, as if it is a secret message being audibly sent to the crowd, a musical Morse code filled with important notes and playful notation advising the audience of the adventure ahead. If The Stranglers for example can come out to their own Waltz In Black and Marillion at one time to La Gazza Ladra; it only is surely appropriate that Scotland’s The Fratelli’s, with all their high eyebrow cool and playful intentions, appear back in Liverpool to The Can Can.

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The Fratellis, In Your Own Sweet Time. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It seems everything we do today is dictated by the push of the clock, we are in the grip of chaos to beat deadlines at an ever more consuming rate, we are pushed to the point of breaking and then people wonder why the robot you have become, suddenly starts to break down, the odd bit of snapping back occurs and the ever increasing heart rate becomes a dawning of realisations, that in the end you should have done it all In Your Own Sweet Time.

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The Fratellis, Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Almost a decade has gone past in the blink of an eye since The Fratellis released what was undoubtedly one of the great, if not the catchiest, of albums of 2006. A decade in which much has changed in the life of many people and in which the thoughts may switch to that summer where you could hear their big hits dominate the radio and even get commercial adoration as being used as celebrations to any league goal scored up and down the length of the U.K.; they switch because for a brief time it seemed that 2006, especially the summer of that year was the true combination of the purple patch and the mystifying salad days all rolled into one as people remember being happy and the music being insanely repeatable.

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The Fratellis, We Need Medicine. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

The trouble with having such an iconic debut album, one that shrieks gladly every time it is taken out of the Perspex holder, is that any follow up albums the artist or group does is going to have a bench mark so high that even standing haphazardly on the tallest ladder with a piece of chalk in one hand a measuring tape in the other will not come probably close to ever beating. This is the problem that has faced many bands for a long time and it’s no wonder that many artists get so disillusioned it all, only the hardy keep going.

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The Fratellis, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The sweat had barely time to dry off in the 02 Academy from the previous night’s storming gig by Big Country than the re-emergence of one of the most popular and endearing bands of the last decade, The Fratellis, stoked up the pressure cooker inside the venue and the keen excitement felt by all spilled over and added further to the party atmosphere.

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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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