You can know someone for years and never truly gain insight into what they are capable of proving to the world until the one moment where the stage lights hits the spot where they stand, and all of a sudden the shadows melt away, they retreat to furthest corners of the mind and all that remains is an artist’s soul, a bright light in which you cannot but send messages to your nearest and fondly remembered that you wish they were there to enjoy the reveal.
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John Chatterton, Gig Review. The Casa, Liverpool.
We play the hand we are dealt but for some there is always a way to seek a journey beyond the deck of possibilities, a chance not yet observed by many to keep performing at the table long after everyone else has cashed in their chips and hailed a taxi to their homes. For some the stimulation they continue to garner, to chase and embrace the fortune and the pot of creative bounty is enough to see the pair of deuces as a winning hand and the straight flush as a moment of beauty, of ignoring the glare and opening the mind to all the permutations possible.
Eleanor Nelly, Gig Review. The Casa, Liverpool.
The relationship between a musician and the demands of society have always ebbed and flowed, a mass of appreciation that is given freely, but then one which is tempered, almost costing the artist the substantial amount of their soul; it is when the outside interference comes along that the musician may feel that they owe more than is necessary and that is the sadness which waylays, perhaps even destroys many a marvellous mind.
John Chatterton, Gig Review. The Casa, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is a question of illusion, do you listen to music or do you watch it, do you shut your eyes in the crowd and let each note transport you to another place, another realm, or do somehow diminish the sound you are hearing and take in visually as much as possible, letting your eyes be astonished by the speed, the delicate and the insanely beautiful. It is a question of illusion for in John Chatterton, you have to peel back the ears, let the eyes widen in anticipation and just sit there without an animated bone in the body and let life have its way with you, let it entertain and entrance for John Chatterton does things on a guitar that leave you breathless in their simplicity and amazed in their complex belief.
Eleanor Nelly, Gig Review. The Casa, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
A hall fit for heroes of their craft, or perhaps just a simple way to enjoy the sound of a woman who is surely destined for great things, be it here in the suburbs of her home town in Liverpool or the drama of undiluted cool across the United States where her music pretty much already has no rivals; in Eleanor Nelly there is flourishing youthful hope and she is class personified.