Tag Archives: L.I.P.A.

I Thought I Might Be Jet Li But It Turns Out That I’m Not, Theatre Review. Sennheiser Studio, L.I.P.A., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Nathan McGowran, Duncan Riches, Stephen Smith.

Life feels like just an act, a play in which we are duty bound to perform at all times, in which the moment we forget our lines, someone else is apt to dive straight in and take over, receiving the glory, the adulation from the press and the crowds who stopped to look our way, and the wry comments of speculation of what they are going to do next. Meanwhile, we stand there shouting to the world, finding the place in which we can rejoin the pace and the set down words; but knowing we will now forever be playing catch up.

Nadjia, Gig Review: Live Stream. Paul McCartney Auditorium, L.I.P.A., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There really is nothing like being at a gig, no other experience comes close; not even a hot date with your dream partner captures the humid, extra special occasion that music in the raw can bring to the mind.

Cloud, Gig Review: Live Stream. Paul McCartney Auditorium, L.I.P.A, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Perhaps the most poignant sentence was uttered towards the end of the nine day showcase of music at L.I.P.A.s Paul McCartney Auditorium as Oscar Vladau-Husevold, vocalist for Norwegian rockers Cloud, said with a the forming of a tear in his eye, the immortal word “Goodbye”.

This was not the way perhaps many of the artists leaving L.I.P.A. would choose to introduce the last song of their set, but it was arguably the most heartbreaking and yet profound moments in the days that have seen some of the most superb of artists to have graced the stage and some of the best music available to watch.

Nora Konstanse, Gig Review. Paul McCartney Auditorium, L.I.P.A, Liverpool.

Nora Konstanse, Paul McCartney Auditorium. L.I.P.A., Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Nora Konstanse, Paul McCartney Auditorium. L.I.P.A., Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10

There are times when you can sit in an auditorium, with a gathering of people, large or small, the taste of stale beer reeking from the floorboards, the feeling of a thousand echoing performances coming out of the walls to meet you with the stealth like attack of a thousand lost drum sticks floating in the air and a million dropped chords wreak havoc with the senses. That what has just taken place in front of you has the power to shift opinions and level mountains of built up former thoughts; a performance, that if captured on a Geiger counter, would have huge areas being cordoned off as the authorities braced themselves for public attitude fall out.

Mari Hajem, Gig Review. Paul McCartney Auditorium, L.I.P.A., Liverpool.

Mari Hajem in the Paul McCartney Auditorium, L.I.PA., Liverpool.  Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Mari Hajem in the Paul McCartney Auditorium, L.I.PA., Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The feeling of goose pimples appearing on your body for no reason at all is not uncommon. Like all natural bodily functions, holding your breath without realising when something unexpected happens before your eyes, the small unseen nervous tick when grace goes out the window, the pleasure received with a huge unnoticed smile when the day is completed by the sense of overwhelming achievement. All are connected to the same route experience, that of understanding something magical has just taken place in your vicinity and that you are richer for the experience.

Ohlayindigo, Gig Review. Paul McCartney Auditorium, L.I.P.A., Liverpool.

Ohlayindigo at the L.I.P.A. 2015 Showcase. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Ohlayindigo at the L.I.P.A. 2015 Showcase. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is always a different beat in which your life to. Those that hear it are blessed by which ever deity or Humanist thought they prescribe to, those that don’t, those that stick to the tried and trusted beige without experiencing the colourful option are in some respects doomed to live in a world infested by the dull and creatively obtuse.

Jessie Solange, Gig Review. Paul McCartney Auditorium, L.I.P.A., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is a quiet, but still audible to those listening with trepidation and the silent thanks of steely fortitude in such matters, countdown before Jessie Solange kicks off the Wednesday showcase with a smile on her face and a quick word for the audience who made their way to the Paul McCartney Auditorium.

Tick, Tick…Boom!, Theatre Review, Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Stuart Crowther, Franki Burke, Adam Handford.

New York in the early 1990s felt at times as if the whole cultural edifice was on its way to being torn down, that imagination, artistic individualism and intellectual prosperity was being neglected, shamed, destroyed by the ever rampant chase of undying consumerism. That the beautiful, even if crime infested streets surrounding certain areas that were awash with artists of every creed were being driven out and in their place those that chased every dollar, every dime and cent with religious capitalist zeal were taking over. Reaganomics had won and the starving artist had better join the party.

Kalandra, Gig Review. L.I.P.A, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10

Whether you like your music to be organic, to have flowed from the streets that straddle the River Mersey in some age old ritual acknowledgement to the flower and testimony of Liverpool upbringing or to have had the chance to have been guided and nurtured to hone the craft of writing, what you cannot fail to miss is the passion that flows through each tempting note of either camp.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Stephen Fletcher.

Sat across the table from Stephen Fletcher at the café in the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall listening to the young actor/producer talk enthusiastically and with a vast knowledge of the theatre at his disposal is something everybody should experience in their life at least once, if they are fortunate then it is something the gracious actor will always afford you. In the last year Stephen has been very busy, he has put together one of the great plays of the last festive period in the critically acclaimed play Mam! I’m ere! and been a part of some of the most challenging and enjoyable productions to have taken part in Liverpool.