Tag Archives: Threshold Festival

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Mersey Wylie.

To have seen someone become the person they are artistically is one of life’s greatest pleasures. To have watched a talent flourish and blossom is a thrill that sometimes defies words. From having watched in awe as the sound of a young woman took tentative steps and be beguiling even in the realms of student radio and onto a stage infront of hundreds can only surely make you smile. For Mersey Wylie this coming weekend is going to be the biggest step yet as she steps from behind many a shadow and shows the audience at Zanzibar that the Wylie name is something that will forever associated with the city of Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Mersey Wylie. full post

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Ronan Boyle, Gig Review. Elevator, Threshold Festival. Liverpool.

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Ronan Boyle stands on the stage at Elevator and time almost stands still, the music he has created gives a huge nod to the acoustic folk/rock scene of the 1970s and the very gentle guitar playing hides a big personality and a very good lyric writer. Not that Ronan needs to hide behind his guitar, if anything it adds an air of mystique to the performance of a man who is so very good at what he does.

Ronan Boyle, Gig Review. Elevator, Threshold Festival. Liverpool. full post

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The Tenements, Gig Review. Elevator, Threshold Festival. Liverpool.

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The first band on the stage on the Saturday in Elevator for the Threshold Festival was the recently renamed The Tenements and despite the tight timings that quite rightly imposed on the artists to keep the afternoon on track, gave a very good account of themselves and their music.

Formally known as Matt Reekie and the Bridges, the three piece band showed their forceful side during the six songs and gave the early festival goers something splendid to hang their enjoyment of the weekend upon. Despite the pressure of kicking starting the second day, the three lads performed well and their opening number When I See Her Face  was well received and a cracking song to be introduced to the group with.

The Tenements, Gig Review. Elevator, Threshold Festival. Liverpool. full post

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Gary Edward Jones, Gig Review. Elevator, Threshold Festival, Liverpool.

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There is something homely about Gary Edward Jones as he takes his place on the stage at Elevator, his demeanour relaxed but full of life, a reputation that he has carved out as a musician over the last few years and as someone who has that extra bit of spice in his musicianship as he performs.

After following on from a superb set by Caroline England, Gary Edward Jones continued to set the bar very high for the performers that would follow over the course of the day and for the remainder of the weekend.

Gary Edward Jones, Gig Review. Elevator, Threshold Festival, Liverpool. full post

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Jo Bywater, Gig Review. The Picket, Threshold Festival. Liverpool.

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As Jo Bywater takes to the stage at The Picket, it is possible to see members of the audience reminiscing over when they first came across this adopted Merseysider from Yorkshire. Time may have moved on and Jo may have been sadly missing from the venues in the city for a while but this sparkling and honest musician who is admired for her tenacity, frankness and genuine desire was treated as a much loved but much missed friend.

Jo Bywater, Gig Review. The Picket, Threshold Festival. Liverpool. full post

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Joe Symes And The Loving Kind, Gig Review. Threshold Festival, Siren, Liverpool.

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Before the day’s Threshold Festival entertainments had started, Siren had had a few of the performers which were making the Baltic Quarter their home for the weekend going through their paces, a pre-match warm up in which to shake any dust out of the lungs that could scupper a great performance. By the end of the day, Joe Symes and the Loving Kind were playing to a packed out audience who had seen many superb musicians during the day but who were in the mood for just one more superb act to finish the day with.

Joe Symes And The Loving Kind, Gig Review. Threshold Festival, Siren, Liverpool. full post

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Science Of The Lamps, Gig Review. Threshold Festival, The Picket, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

All over the Baltic Quarter in Liverpool, bands and artists had been thrilling audiences during the second day of the Threshold Festival but there can’t have been many more that were as highly anticipated, nor as keenly appreciated as Science of the Lamps. The near impossible task of getting perhaps one of the largest gatherings of musicians and singers on a stage anywhere in Liverpool over the weekend, including the ever superb musician Luke Moore on cello and keyboards and the wonderful vocal talent of Mersey Wylie alongside the woman of the weekend Kaya Herstad Carney.

Science Of The Lamps, Gig Review. Threshold Festival, The Picket, Liverpool. full post

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

Caroline England, Gig Review. Threshold Festival. Elevator, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Threshold Festival had already had a successful day on the Friday and as the new day blew away the cobwebs and aching joints of the Saturday morning, Elevator, the acoustic venue for the weekend and part of the superbly run Graham Holland acoustic set up in the city, welcomed new and much loved established performers through its doors and the early part of the afternoon revelled in the music on offer.

Caroline England, Gig Review. Threshold Festival. Elevator, Liverpool. full post

(336 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)