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Katy McGrath, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016.

There should be a general arrangement, an agreement that not one single world leader could dare deny without fear of ridicule or the sound of derision coming from their vocal cynics, that Liverpool really is the home to the female musicians and female rock gods to who could also do a damn sight better job of running the ideologies of all countries. You can find them in every bar, venue and stage sending the guitar into long periods of apoplectic rage and long sequences of beauty that even the masters of the arched pessimist warmonger would have to concede, that they are more powerful, more engaging than all of the rank and file suits put together.

Katy McGrath, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool.

Kate McGrath at the Kazimier, August 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Kate McGrath at the Kazimier, August 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are tales of heroism to be told and battles that are yet to be spoken of in the heart of any performer, for the most part these stories of courage and gallant fearlessness are the sole reserve of the darkened room, the intimate setting of the shut door venue and where the glare of spotlight defects from the eyes of the artist and the slight upturned smile masking some inner torment.