Broken Witt Rebels at the 02, London. Photograph by Peter Noble.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is not often that Birmingham gets to wake up London, gets the chance to holler into the soft tissue of the capital’s head, especially first thing on a Sunday morning when the world has barely recovered from the day before, a Saturday in which the o2 Arena shook its foundations and sent shock waves across to the Isle of Dogs and hopefully terrified the Westminster village to its core.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
When all that remains is love, the human heart will feel peace. It is a love that has been kept firmly in the hearts of the tens of thousands of Marillion fans since the first moment they came across the band. When all that remains is love, then the complexity of human emotion can come shining through like the Lighthouse of Alexandria, it is talked of for all time and the beacon searches out both wrecks and salvation alike.
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There are front men and then there are showmen, there are those that intrigue and those that captivate with their sheer physical presence, Michael Monroe sits firmly in the camp of showmen and captivating and it was a label he was more than happy to play up to with a certain amount of rock regal stance as he strutted upon the Indigo stage at the o2 with a gleaming smile and stone tight good attitude.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It always feels right to have some Therapy? in your life, it is just a shame that the therapy some need, all they require, is not available upon the N.H.S., if it was there would be a lot more contented people out there. For the therapy they need comes in the shape and form of one of Northern Ireland’s great bands and as they blew away the Indigo Stage on a Saturday afternoon, as they paved the way for the main event in the other hall, the feeling was perhaps they might have been given the chance to really go to town as one of the big four acts inside the o2 Arena.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
It is hard when you are on the edges, when thrown to the sides like an outcast sat at the city gates, looking for scraps of comfort and knowing that deep down your thoughts are about as welcome as the plague, but as you sit in the far reaches of a gathering and you don’t get the hype, the sentimental leaning of those caught in the whirlwind of supposed excitement at the front of the stage, the slight stance of indifference towards the middle and the abject mind wanderings at the back, that just how you are supposed to feel about The Darkness.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Jared James Nichols, a name to which let the tongue enjoy the sensation of longing, of powerful beginnings and the concept in the mind of just what is to come over the period of time infront of us, for in Mr. Nichols lays the future and he is great company.