Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It is to memory that we are able to see the prospect of hope in the distance; that even in the most damning of times we can imagine a moment after the damaging storm clouds have cleared in which the sound of a heart filled with courage takes a faultless foot on the stage and stands ready for the houselights to pick her out and for the music to captivate the audience in a way that hadn’t been felt in their souls for what could have been years.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The art of the short story is one that is often undervalued by a society that acts almost as if it is loitering with intent by the writer to hammer out more information from them, the questions rapid, almost unceasingly, there is no care to understand that the words on the page contain all they need to see the story through, no extras, no different alley in which to watch a character act in a different manner. All that is required is the act of attention for a short period, to register the difference between the reflection of the moon which bathes the world in nightly reassurance, and that of the Starlight that reminds us there is more out there to be persuaded by.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The Cavalier approach, the adventurer lauded as she takes to the stage and sings the sonnets of love, of the knight and the fair, Eddi Reader has been a constant surveyor of the world, she has brought down the arrogant with a scathing song, she has praised the beautiful of opinion and deed and the keepers of the pure hearted with a tune so devastatingly pure that it outweighs even the most sought after of precious stones. Ms. Reader is not one for the Cavalier, her words and music and never high-handed, never careless, but one in which the exploration and the voyage are full of the introspective and the enjoyment of the considered approach.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are those that will always make a great marriage, a union which is reflected in the way the other side of the pair will always look to the other with hope in their eyes and love in their hearts; celebrated Scottish vocalist and musician Eddi Reader is that kind of performer and human being to whom the relationship with the audience is more than special, it is a marriage of souls and mutual appreciation to which continues to flourish and resonate each time she appears on stage.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Consistency is always a given attribute and always wished for but it is a rare and beguiling thing that few really attain, the expected dip perhaps in form, the slide into the possible mediocre or the distraught finding that it was all just one album to far, a career of consistent beauty, of a dramatic and sensual voice captured each and every time, not everyone gets that luxury but then not everybody has The Best of Eddi Reader on their side.
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There is impressive and then there is confident, to have both relative strangers on stage at the same time is a rare commodity in which to draw breath, exhale deeply at the thought and then just let your heart go with it. For the confident and the impressive will always take the breath away, you may as well surrender fully and let the air escape your lungs voluntarily than let the preposterous and beige tell you that what you are seeing on stage is nothing, for those twin shades of humanity know nothing.
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When Eddi Reader sings, the only logical thing to do is listen. To take that organ of beauty that sometmes rattles round the head and open up to the sense of music ceremony that is on offer.
There are many female musicians and vocalists that sit with some justification on the realm afforded them by the British public, their voices carry nectar that others, including many men, cannot hope to attain. However as Ms. Reader has proved time and time again and latterly with this year’s album release Vagabond, her voice is just divine. The cool sensual velvet touch that resides in the Scottish singer’s throat, that if captured in a painting would have Constable or Turner blushing with pride with the comparisons handed round, sparkles and plays with memory with seduction.