Tag Archives: Boo Hewerdine

Boo Hewerdine, Before. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The setting and the mood are fundamental for art to thrive, the sterile and the beige is of little importance, but the drama of the unexpected, the reflection of the human experience, that is what brings any art to life. The after image of what went Before is crucial, the agility of the artist to focus on the minimal rather than the explosive, critical; and through such passionate intricacy the listener is introduced to the seismic silence that sweeps them off their feet.

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(400 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Boo Hewerdine, Swimming In Mercury. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

In the laps of the gods, brushing shoulders with the messenger with winged feet and hoping that he takes the note, elegantly written, the heart understanding that each word must be precise and to the point but with the notion that it also must contain a code to which the deserving will adore, to the masses and from there threaten to break down a system and only offer a truth, a truth that life is rich and full of weaved tapestry, even if you cannot see it, the writer Swimming In Mercury will.

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(458 words, 1 image, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

The New 52, Let Me Sleep. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It might sound as if the idea was to make Darragh Cullen a superhero, to don the spandex and the secret identity, to fight the crime of poor manufactured music by television moguls who have no idea what an inspired and beautiful song really sounds like. It could easily be an homage to the world of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, of dark alleyways and illuminated sidewalks, the hero stands tall and the people of the world who pray for musical salvation, The New 52’s Let Me Sleep sees justice done.

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(380 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Boo Hewerdine, Born. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To be Born is to have the world, to live and make the world take notice of you is to have existed and lived beyond the realms of expectation; it does truly depend on what you do with that Time that makes the space in between birth and the inevitable passing of the sunset, worthwhile.

For Boo Hewerdine, every day feels like re-birth, an exceptional talent that keeps giving pleasure and like a new born child, one that constantly and ultimately gives those who peer over the guitar like pram, a thrill to witness the growth and strength that is evident and cool.

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(419 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Boo Hewerdine, Gig Review. Music Room, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Boo Hewerdine at the Music Room, Liverpool, November 2016. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The music of Boo Hewerdine may draw you in, the elegance of easy virtue and taste adding spice to the occasion but it is also his dry humour, his self- depreciation and anecdotes of a profession well lived that catches the attention of his live sets.

To many in the Philharmonic Hall’s Music Room, Boo Hewerdine is a colossus of British music and as he went through the near countless songs at his and the gathered audience’s disposal, there was no arguing with that simple and honest fact of artistic life.

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

Boo Hewerdine, Open. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The modern world at times is so frantic that the sight of a single flower poking its head above the procession of weeds and moss encrusted pavements is sometimes treated with derision and sarcasm. A sign that the world in its infinite wisdom should carry on producing such moments and not give in the easy chance to score a point against a fellow human being, is often scorned and deflected as such and it makes for a sad tale of forgotten past and adds colour to the sensitive and profound.

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

Findlay Napier, VIP Very Interesting Persons. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There is something deep down that makes anyone with even just a smidgen of adventure or human spirit welling up under the surface of composed reassurance that wouldn’t want, even for a short while, to be the hero of the hour, the person of the moment or even the V.I.P. entering the room.

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(465 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Boo Hewerdine, My Name In Brackets (The Best of Boo Hewerdine & The Bible). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A gentle demeanour is never lost in life. The soothing tones of a musician seemingly at peace with themselves is never truly overshadowed by the storm that rampages around them, the squall and the rough tidal surges that drown out the less romantic find ways to inspire the artistically gifted. For Boo Hewerdine if the squall and blizzards of life affect him, then his music doesn’t show it, not outwardly possibly but like all great artists there is something of the dark attached within the moving, almost sensual lyrics that command the same attention as coming across the flowing beast that is the River Nile for the first time.

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

Eddi Reader, Vagabond. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To suggest that the phenomenal Eddi Reader has wandered through music since bursting onto the scene with Fairground Attraction would be doing this versatile and exciting musician a massive disservice. This is not a woman who can be accused of strolling through life, drifting from record to record, song to song as with some; the beauty she exudes through her music is enough at times to take your breath away and her latest solo album Vagabond is no exception.

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(450 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)