Tag Archives: Gig Review. Studio 2

Me And Deboe, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

In another plane of existence it would be fair to openly state that Me And Deboe would be one of the biggest, and well known duos on the planet, with a sound, a sense of urgent creativity that flows through each song and with a passion for expression that arguably has only been matched by Simon and Garfunkel, it would make sense, it would be the conversation of wisdom, to see and insist that Me And Deboe would be shaking the tree of indifference and pulling up those that follow with them.

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

Charlie McKeon, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

On any night in which providence strikes, to open yourself up to the elements, to throw yourself down on the barbed wire of artistic integrity and be seen, to be witnessed as the moment in which the evening’s flourished bloom begins, that is fortune, but in the hands of Charlie McKeon as he set the tone of the evening for Thom Morecroft’s album launch at Liverpool’s Studio 2, it was of farsighted destiny.

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(387 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Thom Morecroft, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The vibe is just as important as the aftermath, the importance of feeling something in the air begin to glow, to shimmer with excitement, the build-up of atmosphere. The sense of the occasion grow like vines from the ground up, that vibe is what makes an evening become an event and when that event takes the attendee to places they thought they might not see again, when they feel the fine hairs on the back of their neck stand on end and the mind is completely transfixed to the point where they don’t know if anyone else is the room, that is when the vibe breaches the soul, that is when they know they have been taken to Heaven and back.

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(525 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

White Little Lies, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Celebration, we arguably don’t do it enough, or if we do then we do it for the wrong reasons, we find the excuse to congratulate almost anything and we often neglect the purposeful and the driven to our own cost.

It is in the resolute and focused aim that White Little Lies took to the stage at Studio 2, not even the spectre of November’s horrendous weather, the grey skies leaving its sternly fixed gaze over the Liverpool skyline could deter Daniel Saleh and Vanessa Murray from delivering a set full of mastery, poise and the squeal of delight from the audience.

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(424 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Two Black Sheep, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

In the right hands the combination of guitar and violin is one of extreme beauty, they complement each other, they add a mournful dynamic to joy, they imagine upbeat righteousness in the midst of passion and yet they also bring a sound of hope to a place where life is in need of comfort; it matters not if the sound is one of the ethereal or inscribed with a regimental jig, what matters is that the heart and soul of a song is joined together by the players and their instruments.

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(393 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Camilla Sky, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is an unrivalled elegance that is on show when Camilla Sky steps on the stage and allows herself to feel the moment, the twinkle in her eye that suggests mischievous beauty and the roving thoughts of melancholy greatness are idols in which to bow down a head and be thankful for; even in the swirling mists of laying her life down for lyrical inspection, there is a style and refinement that shines through with absolute purpose.

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(370 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Jimmy And The Revolvers, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool. (2019).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Jimmy And The Revolvers, Studio 2, Liverpool. October 2019. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Such is the music provided in the last ten years by what was once Liverpool’s fledgling music community, it would be forgivable to admit that you might not have been able to see every band that has frequented the pubs, the back stages and for some the recognition afforded by the larger venues that the city has to offer. However, there will always be a part of Liverpool that will belong to Jimmy and the Revolvers, a voice that emulates that of one of Liverpool’s favourite sons, Gerry Marsden and a vibe that sits at the heart of modern transposed joy, and to witness it live, for a first time, for a hundredth time, or perhaps for a last time, is to understand what you loved about music in the first place.

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(378 words, 1 image, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The applause is long, whistles of appreciation hit the pleasantly decorated eaves above the audience’s head, the walls of the playground that is the Studio 2 on Parr Street have shaken with the sound of a woman’s magnificence hitting an all-time high, and somewhere in each attendee’s heart, a passion could be visibly be seen to stir has been woken, an appetite, a hunger they never knew they had, has been evidently awoken; and all in the cause of Mersey Wylie taking her much deserved bow at the end of a night which has been remarkable, unequalled.

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(509 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Elijah James And The Nightmares, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Time was a new album or E.P. launch would be held in the frosted glaze of cameras and a hundred scribes finding a novel way to describe the happiness and pride in the room, the management pouring out champagne and the band assured a million dollar comeback; it was all colourful, it was cynical and it was never truly real. Under the façade of a thousand camera lenses lays one of the truths of life, that nothing is truly what is seems unless you witness it in all its beauty of the humble and quietly talented leaving a bigger mark on the audience than a extravaganza could ever achieve.

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(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

The Mono LPs, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Vicky Mutch at Studio 2. September 2017.

Not everything in life is a stroll, often we take the great moments for granted and always use them as the bench mark of how we must approach a new setback or pitfall. If everything was a stroll then the way we see the way of solving the setback would be just like taking a step around a small puddle in the middle of the pavement, we would just bypass it with a blasé demeanour, it would nothing more to us than even breathing or staring at the world and wondering why it had become so dull and predictable.

The Mono LPs, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool. full post

(498 words, 1 image, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)