Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The historical and social significance of Coffee & Gin cannot be easily dismissed as part of the way the people of Britain lead their lives in the 21st Century; Hogarth’s famous Beer and Gin Lane printing depicting the social ills of Gin Lane is tempered by the 18th Century’s love and seeming respectability of the advancing coffee houses that were springing up all over capital. Yet the two are probably more interlinked than they ever probably were intended to be and the slow death assured by the drinking of foreign Gin is enough to remember the addiction many have to the bean in the century we find ourselves feeding.