Tag Archives: Studio 2

Mari Hajem, Gig Review. Strings And Things, Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

In an evening of music supplied by Stillhet’s Strings and Things, an evening in which the order of the day was showing female talent that resides in the heart of the city of Liverpool, the Nordic beating heart of atmospheric Noir-like pop tones with shades of the Progressive cleverly interwoven throughout every sinew, may not have been the first thought in many people’s minds of what to expect on the first day of the month in which the freezing cold is meant to be banished back to its Antarctica cave.

Mari Hajem, Gig Review. Strings And Things, Studio 2, Liverpool. full post

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

Helena Johnson, Gig Review. Strings And Things, Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Say what you will about the modern age, moan about it being over commercial, intrusive, noisy to the point of petulant or even just plain out of step with how you remember it from your childhood but as a marketing tool to get you sit up and take notice of life outside your front door, the modern age is unsurpassable.

Helena Johnson, Gig Review. Strings And Things, Studio 2, Liverpool. full post

(395 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Cottonwoolf, E.P. Review

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It may seem a strange affair to consider, perhaps even rum in some music lover’s eyes, but not every rock/R&B fan likes Led Zeppelin. It seems to be a permanent question that hangs on the mouths of the pop fan like a drip feed tube giving nutrients to a coma patient, you like rock, then you must like Led Zeppelin. Whilst the Midland’s band might not be everybody’s personal liking, there is a young band who has climbed the slippery slope out of Leeds and who tickles the taste buds of musical sincerity with their debut E.P. Cottonwoolf.

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(430 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Twisted Trees, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool.

Claire Sanders of Twisted Trees. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There will always be a place for your favourite music, the heart, nor brain ever lets go of any of the lyrics that you spent most of your life memorising to the point that if pushed you could recite them word for word under exam conditions whilst sinking in quick sand and rescue only possible if you even get the obscure releases pitch perfect.

Twisted Trees, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool. full post

(392 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Inge Bremnes, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool.

Inge Bremnes at Studio 2 in Liverpool. June 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 7/10

There is a well beaten path that has emerged once more between the fiords of Norway and the port of Liverpool. It has come back to life in recent years as the city opens its arms with anticipation at the thought of more good music finding its way to the venues of the undoubted capital of music culture in the U.K.

Inge Bremnes, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool. full post

(420 words, 1 image, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

The Indecisives, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool.

Isobel Lim from The Indecisives. Studio 2, Parr Street. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 7/10

To sit in a venue and watch any number of bands or seasoned solo musicians ply their trade, thrill a crowd and look pristine throughout is something that any of us can take for granted. Sometimes though we forget where the musicians start out from, the nerves of debut or even 50^th gig still thundering round their instruments and still fresh as the hour after a storm abates.

The Indecisives, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool. full post

(570 words, 1 image, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

Little Sparrow, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool.

Little Sparrow at the Studio 2, Liverpool 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Although some artists grow on you over time, there is an argument for the thought that your first opinion of them is normally the one that is correct. With life becoming far too fast to keep up at times before the next trend or even whim, the next vogue act or person in favour on television. Sometimes you have to make a stand, draw a long line around yourself and say, bear with me as I really want to savour this thanks and in Little Sparrow, the line demands to painted over in several coats of luminous yellow paints and a few traffic stops signs flashing stop for good measure.

Little Sparrow, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool. full post

(455 words, 2 images, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Susie Jones, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool.

Susie Jones at Studio 2 in Liverpool May 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In a night that was filled to overflowing with very cool and deserving female musicians making all the headlines inside Studio 2 on Parr Street, to open up ahead of the likes of Little Sparrow, Ingrid Frosland and the superb Norwegian band Kalandra might be considered a tad daunting. However, for Susie Jones, daunting is just another word for showing exactly what you are made of and watching her and her two fellow musicians on stage, the equally cool Dave Parker and Rob Kentell, daunting was a by word for secure and musically affluent.

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(366 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Jon Byrne Comes To Liverpool As Part Of U.K. Tour.

Jon Byrne’s rise to prominence has, surprisingly, been a long and arduous one. He was raised in the tough industrial U.K. town of Barrow-in-Furness. This experience allowed Jon to write about the rough side of the social spectrum; he says he writes from the soul and insists his songs tell it ‘how it is.’

With sharp looking suits, even sharper lyrics, beautifully woven melodies and performances that shake the stage with enough energy to force the needle off the Richter Scale, Jon Byrne, will be releases his new album Built By Angels to coincide with his U.K. tour. He comes to Liverpool on Saturday 18th May.

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(324 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

A Musical Evening In Aid Of Cancer Research, Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool.

Barry Briercliffe at Studio 2. Picture by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 5th 2012.

In the area where some of the great albums of the last decade or so have been recorded, argued over, intense discussions over what musical note goes where, it’s always a relative oasis of calm when a night of music goes on, surrounded by the wooden panelling, pictures and awards and the sense of history.

Barry Briercliffe and Studio 2 sounds like a marriage made in heaven, add in the likes of the excellent Jo Bywater, Jessicas Ghost, Rae Clarke and Eddie Cooney, and that marriage is as close to a night of acoustic musical heaven as is near possible to experience.

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(841 words, 1 image, estimated 3:22 mins reading time)