Tag Archives: Gig Review. The Cavern Club

Dawn Oberg, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2018.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To take the entertainment and skill of the cabaret lounge and place under the intense microscope of the unsuspecting eyes of Liverpool Cavern Club patrons may seem an unlikely success, but for musician Dawn Oberg, the combination of upbeat performance and hard-hitting lyrics is one that anybody finding themselves in the company of the artist, could not fail to like, admire and wish she was in Britain more often than her native home in the United States of America.

Dawn Oberg, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2018. full post

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

Sleuth, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2018.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Investigation is half the enjoyment of witnessing an abundance of bands when the Independent Pop Overthrow comes to one of its host cities. The research, the crossing off of a band, the tick box and the doodled happy face when you come across a group or artist who floats your boat and scratches the itch of the years of painted over smiles and thoughtful applause.

Sleuth, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2018. full post

(348 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Alison Green, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2018.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Alison Green at The Cavern Club, May 2018. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

 

Some musicians and artist exemplify their surrounding so much that it is impossible to think of them in any other way, that the Cavern, the older, the more insistent part of Liverpool’s heritage in musical terms, should see the Independent Pop Overthrow return with such spectacular vision as to have within its ranks for a fifth straight year, Canterbury’s own but Liverpool loved, Alison Green.

Alison Green, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2018. full post

(525 words, 1 image, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Joe Bonamassa: A Tribute To The British Blues Explosion, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

With sweat sliding from the walls of the world famous Cavern Club in Liverpool – holy home of The Beatles and one or two others – Joe Bonamassa stepped onto the stage at 8 pm, slung his guitar across his shoulders and thereby went on to rip the guts out of the place with two hours of the most sublime guitar work you are ever likely to witness.

Joe Bonamassa: A Tribute To The British Blues Explosion, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. full post

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

The Springtime Anchorage, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * *

In amongst it all, life throws you the occasional musical curve ball in which to relish. At any festival it impossible to see every band, especially when the organisers find 140 of them in which to treat your taste buds to. All you can do is see the ones you really want to see and then hope you have enough left in the stamina box to see a couple that have alerted your radar and in which to check out.

The Springtime Anchorage, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014. full post

(363 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Alison Green, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Geoffrey Chaucer neglected to tell one story when penning the grand uncle of English Literature classics, the Tale of Alison Green.

Much debt is owed to The Canterbury Set of musicians who made their mark on certain specific genres over the years, the history of the Kent City, nestling deep as the spiritual home of the country and offering a path to pilgrims over the century and as place which once visited should never be forgotten. Now add all these reasons together and intensify them with a young musician by the name of Alison Green and you have all the ingredients of powerful sonnet or lengthy adoring poem in which the writer would have been proud to have placed somewhere between The Wife of Bath’s Tale and the upstanding Knights Tale.

Alison Green, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2014. full post

(596 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)