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The Good Host, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool. (2016).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The sound of Vienna, the last days of grand empire in a city that would remain forever associated with fine music and beautiful venues in which to play them, could not sound more opulent or desirable than being able to relish in the alternative Folk Rock guitar sound driven by The Good Host. The whirl of Vienna, the mood of the Danube slowly winding itself down through Europe and the psychological musings of Freud as the ghosts of the Habsburgs looked on; none of that splendour matches being in the company of the band that makes music just something you yearn for the company of a fine port and a roaring Christmas fire for.

The Good Host, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are people under a certain age that wouldn’t be aware of the lyrical prowess of those that lived on the musical hall stage. Those seemingly immortal beings who could somehow rattle out a story with an accompanying piano and a small cigarette wistfully burning away inside its porcelain holder, seem at times, to be Gods who belong to a different age. In the modern day there is no need for the smoke, for the exuberant glint of porcelain and the outlandish lyric once favoured by the likes of Noel Coward…