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Black Diamond, Gig Review. East Village Arts Centre, Liverpool.

Black Diamond, East Vilage Arts Centre, Liverpool. May 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The one to watch in 2015 has delivered to the point of fanaticism, dispensed with the thought of possibility and served up the righteous at room temperature an allowed to boil well into the night. For Black Diamond this particular gig at the East Village Arts Centre was astonishing, a tour de force of explosive beauty coupled with the heat of derision and the portrayal of band who cannot surely be stopped.

Black Diamond, Gig Review. East Village Arts Centre, Liverpool. full post

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

Diamond Days, Gig Review. East Village Arts Centre, Liverpool.

Diamond Days at E.V.A.C, Liverpool, May 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A change of scene is all it takes to get the full bloodied effect of what a band is capable of saying. Not just capable, but with style and accomplished grace, with passion and drive and the sweet serenade of a smile majestically raised to the heavens. The change is so palpable that it really makes the listener fully endorse the group as just oozing awesome from out of their collective shell.

Diamond Days, Gig Review. East Village Arts Centre, Liverpool. full post

(449 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Boston Manor, Gig Review. East Village Arts Centre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Sometimes you just have to applaud the demeanour of a band that has just sweated copious amounts of sweat in the name of the cause. That sweat, almost pouring with the same majestic force as the water that tumbles over Niagara Falls after a torrent of rain has swelled the mighty beast to bursting point, comes ready packaged as part of Boston Manor’s short but high spirited and highly energetic set at the Fury Fest at the East Village Arts Centre.

Boston Manor, Gig Review. East Village Arts Centre, Liverpool. full post

(366 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

These Minds, Gig Review. East Village Arts Centre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

The rivalry between the two leading cities of the North-West doesn’t just limit itself to the battles that take place between the four combined sides battling it out for Premiership supremacy, it extends back through recent history in its struggle to been to seen as the second city of the country, the powerhouses of commerce and in its music.

The football is all well and good however, on recent form Manchester shades it, especially with the re-emergence of the only team to actually play their home games in Manchester, but the music and its dominance on the local cultural landscape; that surely has to be down as a thrashing handed out by the city that straddles the Mersey.

These Minds, Gig Review. East Village Arts Centre, Liverpool. full post

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

Oh, Pioneer, Gig Review. East Village Arts Centre, Liverpool.

Oh, Pioneer at E.V.A.C. Liverpool. May 2015. Photograpgh by Ian D. Hall.

Oh, Pioneer at E.V.A.C. Liverpool. May 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

When people criticise the young with the relentless enthusiasm associated with the post Victorian hangover that was so prevalent in the 1960s and ‘70s, the post war side effect of dogmatic unilateral hatred that was once rightly aimed at the forehead of Fascism but turned itself into its own parody by suggesting that all should be dealt with strict unfeeling indifference, that is the time in which to run for the hills and pray to whichever deity counts your musical soul as a personal possession that you never go so far down the route of being obnoxious, that even if it’s one thing only, you will find something to enjoy.

Oh, Pioneer, Gig Review. East Village Arts Centre, Liverpool. full post

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

The Tuts, Gig Review. East Village Arts Centre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Nobody ever wants to go to a gig and be bored, what would be the point? You may as well stay at home, put on the television and be entertained by the mindless pulp and trash that passes for entertainment at times. For in that world of the beige and insipid lays the regular heartbeat, the dull sound of the grandfather clock, polished within an inch of its life and signaling with wooden glee your every ever closing steps your date with the inevitable, beige being your watchword.

The Tuts, Gig Review. East Village Arts Centre, Liverpool. full post

(454 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Heaven 17, Gig Review. East Village Arts Centre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Lead us not into temptation… unless of course it is by the firm hand and knowing smiles of Glenn Gregory and Martyn Ware of the sensational Heaven 17.

These words must have passed the vast majority of lips of those attending the second night of the Heaven 17 tour many times in the preceding weeks leading up to the gig at the East Village Arts Centre in Liverpool. By the end of the night, by the time that Martin Ware had conjured up enticing music from out of the ether and Glenn Gregory had sang with the power of a male siren luring all to the ship of musical entanglement and provocative craving, those words would have been uttered in each audience member’s sleep but with spoken with no conviction, for all it seemed were entranced by the stage presence and desire raging three feet above them.

Heaven 17, Gig Review. East Village Arts Centre, Liverpool. full post

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

Blancmange, Gig Review. East Village Arts Centre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Neil Arthur stood almost transfixed on the stage of the East Village Arts Centre. Seemingly beautifully hypnotised by the sight and sound that was taking place before him as fans, young and old, of Blancmange didn’t just sing back to him, they liberated and gave freedom to the symbol of musical expression.

Blancmange, Gig Review. East Village Arts Centre, Liverpool. full post

(462 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)