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Paul Dunbar, Gig Review. Above The Beaten Track, The Bluecoat, Liverpool.

Paul Dunbar at the Bluecoat, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Paul Dunbar doesn’t work that often without his tremendous band, The Midnight Ramble, thundering with exquisite charm beside him and the sound of a thousand instruments all begging for that brief but beautiful solo spot in which to extol the virtues of one of Liverpool’s finest young bands. However, when he does it is with the same resounding belief and great bundles of effort he puts into the group arena and it shows as always, great humility and tremendous authority.

Paul Dunbar, Gig Review. Above The Beaten Track, The Bluecoat, Liverpool. full post

(402 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Anthony Cunningham, Gig Review. Above The Beaten Track, The Bluecoat, Liverpool.

Anthony Cunningham at the Bluecoat, Liverpool. September 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It’s when you hear a song being taken to its vocal extremes that you realise just how good someone is and you that you find yourself making a note in your diary to check out when the possibility of catching them again will arise; it is at that moment when art in any of its forms speaks out to you.

Anthony Cunningham, Gig Review. Above The Beaten Track, The Bluecoat, Liverpool. full post

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

SheBeat, Gig Review. Above The Beaten Track, The Bluecoat, Liverpool. (2015).

SheBeat at the Bluecoat, Liverpool. September 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The softly spoken but dynamite lyricist SheBeat once more was made to feel more than welcome as part of the Above The Beaten Track Festival at the Bluecoat and it is with little wonder as the sound of carefully laid out creativity echoed through the Sandon Room at the Bluecoat and the smile on the faces inside as they enjoyed the songs was something to behold.

SheBeat, Gig Review. Above The Beaten Track, The Bluecoat, Liverpool. (2015). full post

(351 words, 1 image, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Yarbo, Gig Review. Above The Beaten Track, The Bluecoat, Liverpool.

Yarbo at the Bluecoat, September 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

September in the Bluecoat Garden has the type of ring to it that should be preserved in a sonnet or the wild imaginings of Liverpool’s Roger McGough. It is the poetic statement that deserves its own Blue Plaque and with the acknowledgement that Adrian Henri sat here and contemplated the form and gave to the world freely. Yet as the chimes of 1p.m. sounded somewhere in the city, the quietly resolute garden, the abundance of music lovers sat or stood with patience and fortitude for the coming day of music ahead, Yarbo took to the stage and played with freedom and mutual understanding.

Yarbo, Gig Review. Above The Beaten Track, The Bluecoat, Liverpool. full post

(367 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)