Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
A festival isn’t a festival unless you have Villy Raze somewhere in the vicinity, the marked poetic aggression, the sincerity of overthrowing the often deemed conventional, but one that is delivered with respect and the smile of a thousand Irish heartbeats making music in unison, no matter the place or venue, it has always been a pleasure to catch the live performance of this genial giant of music in full throw.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Whichever city you go to, whichever small town you might find yourself in overnight or which village you could be transported to, there will always be a group of people ready to defend the Punk lifestyle, the ethic and the music, it is a right that anybody with good sense will do; even forty years after the emergence and apparent overnight death knell, the sound of the genre, crossed over, played around with and seeping into other varieties, never truly dies.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Light the fuse and stand well back, do not be tempted to return to item without having read the manual, for once Villy Raze is lit, there is no holding him back and it is a pleasure to see the rocket cascade in a different set of colours in his new single Ignite.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There have been great musicians, great poets and great song writers that have come out of Ireland. The social eye of Damien Dempsey, the urban mouthpiece of a disenfranchised youth of Bob Geldof whose barbed, razor like quality made him a voice of a generation in Dublin and beyond and north of the border, the legendary Fergal Sharkey’s great way with words and imagery endeared him and The Undertones across the Irish Sea and into the heart of John Peel and beyond. Add now to this these and other intelligent and very special performers, the sound of Villy Raze.