Tag Archives: Zanzibar Club

Reva, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Reva at the Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. July 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If only the so called Brit Pop phenomenon of the 1990s had been founded in the heartland of pop, the public houses, the bars and clubs that cosy alongside the River Mersey it would have arguably been as colourful as the Mersey Beat era of the 1960s. It would have also arguably been more substantial and lasted with more ferocity than what eventually fizzled out between a few bands, sometimes with the British press over egging it to the point where there was a farm somewhere in Lancashire on 24 hour production schedule to meet the near selfish demand.

Reva, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(520 words, 1 image, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

The Akalites, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

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

The Zanzibar Club has had so many bands and musicians pass through its large metallic doors that if there was to be a roll of honour made up, carved out of the same wood that adorns the walls at Lords Cricket ground when a player takes five or ten wickets in an innings then amongst the names of Alan O’ Hare, the legendary Pete Wylie and the sensational Mersey Wylie and a thousand fold others, the one that might catch the eye is the exciting The Akalites.

The Akalites, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(522 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Doodah Farm, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The turning of the year, perhaps in some ways even more important, more evocative to those who live by the natural setting of the Sun than the human construct of December 31^st and January 1^st, the day when for those in the North; the clock starts to slide towards the darkness once more. The minutes start to chip away from both ends until the chaotic beauty of the world becomes shrouded in darkness for a few months.

Doodah Farm, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(542 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Luke Cusato, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Rarely do you go out to see a musician on stage for the first time and come away feeling as though you have seen the blossoming stages of hybridisation of elegant poetry and the subtleness of keyboards notes wafting through the air as if caught on the wings of a Red Admiral in full flight. However for anybody in the Zanzibar Club in Liverpool ahead of a long steamy night, that is exactly what they would have felt stirring as they watched Luke Cusato perform.

Luke Cusato, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(412 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Run Tiger Run, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

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

With a world that has so much going on a daily basis, sometimes an act may get overlooked. The fast pace of modern life ensuring that art mournfully suffers as the call on someone’s time eats into what would be a pleasurable experience. Either that or the prevalence to sit in an overcrowded bar with piped music assaulting the ears in much the same way waking up in amongst a flock of hungry seagulls at four in the morning would be inexcusably painful really is how people like to spend their spare time. Either way, to have missed Run Tiger Run give a commanding performance at the Zanzibar Club was one that should eat into the musical soul labelled regret.

Run Tiger Run, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(439 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Emma Stevens, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9^1/2/10

It took a smile, the easiest of human reflexes and the most disarming to understand that this was going to be a set in which love would not just be felt but would in turn become admiration and fully encompassed respect. For Emma Stevens, the smile she wore for almost the entire set inside Zanzibar was not one of falseness, not just placed there in which to entrance an audience, but one of the most honest beams you ever likely to see on stage by a musician as they perform a set of music that just stole the heart.

Emma Stevens, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(470 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Alexandra Jayne, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. (April 2014)

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It may be the Easter break for many students up and down the country but that doesn’t mean that they either unwind over the spoils of Cadbury wars and gargantuan eggs, nor for the benefit of their own sanity or health hitting every single book for 24 hours a day ready for the impending exams that naturally hove into view once the last wrapper has been dispatched to its fiery hell.

Alexandra Jayne, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. (April 2014) full post

(481 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

TJ And Murphy, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

TJ and Murphy provided the harmonic dichotomy on a stage that had been and would be dominated in the early part of the evening by two female musicians, one on her own but with a voice that could break down barriers and playfully tease affection out of the sulkiest stone and the other whose refreshingly bright and breezy attitude reminded the world that a smile can be the most effective weapon in anyone’s arsenal.

TJ And Murphy, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(430 words, 1 image, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Pete Wylie, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Close your eyes and think for a minute of one of the men and women who exemplifies the whole Liverpool sound, the charm and the no-nonsense, the humour and the artistic vision all wrapped up in lyrics that make you both beam with pride and raise a fist in solidarity alongside. The sound you hear is one that you might not have heard for a while, the tone of voice still sweet, the manner of the anger and resentment to some still intense and charismatic and the utter magnetism of the performer is such that daring to take a peek through gripped and straining fingers becomes too much. For it is true Pete Wylie, the man who has a street map of his home city indelibly stamped into the very fabric of his D.N.A., is back thrilling audiences once more.

Pete Wylie, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(630 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The rich vein of life, the tapestry that weaves its way through the streets, through iconic buildings such as The Bombed out Church of St. Luke’s, the radical nature of two opposing buildings of faith being at opposite ends of one of the most artistic streets in the city and to perhaps the greatest single collection of music venues and theatres anywhere in the country in which thousands of people get to show their devotion to the natural calling of entertainment, continues from one generation to the other.

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(554 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)