Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 81/2/10
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.