Tag Archives: Kazimier

Shoes4brakes, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Garden, Kazimier, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If there were medals for coaxing the sunshine back into the day and dismissing the rain that soaked Liverpool for the best part of a couple of hours, then Shoes4brakes would be arriving home with more decorations than Usain Bolt coming back from China with his tied around his waist and with Mo Farrah’s secretly stashed in his holdall.

The weather of course is but a side show to the main event, the collective power of wonderful persuasion that the twosome bring to the stage should not be easily dismissed, for to do so plays scorn upon the whole Liverpool music experience and that is something which should be sought out and spanked for its impudence and dishonour.

Shoes4brakes, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Garden, Kazimier, Liverpool. full post

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

Derek King, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Garden, Kazimier, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Rain must fall into the everyday; it is what after all makes the grass on the right side of the fence lush and green. The heavens may have opened with the feeling of the torrential storm homing in like an angry pigeon toting a bad attitude and blistering for an argument but in small corner of Liverpool, out of the rain but very much enjoying the sound of water hitting the small rounded gravel stones and the bouncing off the wooden tables, the Kazimier Garden’s audience wallowed in the beautiful sentiments offered by Derek King and the sly shake of the imagined fist as he dared the weather to do its worst.

Derek King, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Garden, Kazimier, Liverpool. full post

(380 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Roxanne de Bastion, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Garden, Kazimier, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To book end a month in Liverpool, to go from the searing heat that infused the Liverpool Loves weekend down at the Pier Head to closing what in some terms may seem like a small residency in the oncoming drizzle of the final chapter that Summer could muster at the Kazimier Garden, is something that very few performers could hope to achieve or even see in the sprawling streets of Liverpool’s musical heritage.

Roxanne de Bastion, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Garden, Kazimier, Liverpool. full post

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

Ade Jackson, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The personification of cool is no matter the set may throw at you or the surprise lurking in the undergrowth, you take it head on, slap the sillyness that it threatens to bring and then just carry on playing as if nothing happened.

To watch Ade Jackson on stage is to feel as though you as a listener of music have a song writer and performer fully on your side. It is the equivalent of finding out that a submarine is applying for the job as both your bouncer and musical guide, for nothing seems to phase this gentle giant and the music he performed with diligence and respect at the Kazimier Garden for Liverpool Acoustic was one that was beefy, strong and upheld all the principles of entertaining a loyal and enthralled crowd.

Ade Jackson, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool. full post

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

Martha Reich, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool.

Martha Reich at the Kazimier. August 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are people around the world that will make their way to Liverpool on the basis of what the city has brought them and made them feel. They will spend time, effort and money getting to know the place and hopefully leave with more than the impression that the area is solely about the four lads who adorn many a shop window and their rightful place in British pop history.

Martha Reich, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool. full post

(435 words, 1 image, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

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

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.

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

(456 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Denis Parkinson, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool.

Denis Parkinson at the Kazimier in Liverpool. August 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Wherever you stand in Liverpool, wherever you care to sit and reflect upon the day and drink in the atmosphere and hum of creativity, it seems that the Liverpool Skyline is changing.

It is perhaps not noticeable from the close up waterfront or from across the beady eyes of the river but inside it, for good or bad, Liverpool is changing, the skyline being bequeathed a different dynamic and yet for a while inside the Kazimier Garden, the skyline didn’t matter, it simply remained still and listened carefully as Denis Parkinson took on his time at the microphone and gave the Liverpool Acoustic Garden songs in which to take pleasure in.

Denis Parkinson, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool. full post

(361 words, 1 image, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Geoghegan Jackson, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool.

Geoghegan Jackson at The Kazimier, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Bank Holidays were not meant for the appearance of a job’s list being presented into the hand of the Human Being, nor were they the opportune moment into which to get frustrated in a 17 mile tail back on Britain’s overstretched motorway system just to catch a glimpse of a wave and the slowly disappearing sensation of another summer gone in the blink of a British eye. What they were made for surely is the chance to listen to local music that might not have been taken in before and to spend time relishing a whole afternoon of it in your own city and away from the nights when the big band decide to play in the biggest venue around.

Geoghegan Jackson, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool. full post

(457 words, 1 image, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

I Blame A Culture Of Crisis, Theatre Review. Kazimier, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Lucinda France-Hayhurst, Daniel Baird, Jennifer Moule.

Language is perhaps the most important thing a human can have in its fight to remain individual but what happens when the boundaries become blurred and tainted when one particular person starts to try and sound as if they appealing to all, the loss of voice, the mark of individuality becomes lost and in that danger and even evil can be seen to take root.

I Blame A Culture Of Crisis, Theatre Review. Kazimier, Liverpool. full post

(435 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)