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Steve Thompson And The Incidents, You’re The Reason. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is always more than one reason why something doesn’t fit anymore, the jigsaw puzzle that attaches itself to life is broken, perhaps scuffed at the edges to the point where the right piece just doesn’t slot perfectly in anymore, it requires gentle persuasion, a firm pressing down or even the body blow of a hammer to knock it into shape. You begin to think it is yourself, you blame everything upon your own actions but sometimes it really is forces beyond your control or desire. For Steve Thompson and The Incidents, it is no longer a case of It’s Me Not You, it is only the fact that You’re The Reason.

Steve Thompson And The Incidents, You’re The Reason. Single Review. full post

(336 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)

Steve Thompson And The Incidents, Monster. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Monster is always there, it doesn’t need to hide itself away under the bed, nor smirk in the darkness of the closet, the monster is alive where ever it wants to take reign and infect its bleak despondency; it is the prerogative of such things to be visible because we allow them to be.

Beasts rarely come along uninvited, they require a inducement, a temptation to attend the breaking down of barriers between one world and another and in the timely hands of Steve Thompson and the Incidents such a temptation of spirit is forthcoming as Monster slams down with the force of a sledgehammer wielded by a god of thunder.

Steve Thompson And The Incidents, Monster. Single Review. full post

(315 words, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

Steve Thompson And The Incidents, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Steve Thompson at the 02 Academy in Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Steve Thompson at the 02 Academy in Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are bands performing in Liverpool that to be brutally frank, you would climb off your sick bed to go and watch, or at least make sure the venue would let you take in a bed, a team of nurses and a glowering doctor, full of self-importance and unhappiness, as part of the ticket price. For Steve Thompson and the Incidents, sick bed or not, the chance to take in the sincerity and prized affection for the music on offer is perhaps enough to tempt even Lazarus out of retirement and have him storming the barricades, the arm pumped in appreciation and singing each well delivered line as though his very life depended upon it.

Steve Thompson And The Incidents, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

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

Steve Thompson And The Incidents. Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Like many things in the world, music is an art form best enjoyed live and in the raw, not force fed down a multiplex of wires and accessible via a flick of a switch and shown on a screen with directors teasing you into believing that what you are seeing is real. Catching a band live allows a sense of belonging to something a little more than yourself and in Steve Thompson and The Incidents, alongside the millions of other bands plying their trade with a smile and a song that belief is more than real, it is realisation that art in the raw is as good as it gets.

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(426 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)