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The Human League, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. (2016).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You only have to go by the sound of the crowd to understand what music means to the people. In the end it is not about mass popularity, the endless soul destroying fight with fame and supposed fortune, it is how your art makes others feel deep in their souls and if you can have a sold out Philharmonic Hall audience singing their hearts out, making the foundations and the walls shake slightly in anticipation and the low moan of pleasure in the ears as hearts spill open over 35 years worth of love and affection for arguably one of the architects of British Synth Pop, The Human League, then the crowd cannot be wrong.

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(474 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

The Human League, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. (2014)

The Human League, November 2014. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are not many bands around whose music manages to be impossibly and wonderfully timeless and yet still sound as if it is as fresh as a newly plucked rose being placed into the hands of a loved one, there aren’t many but then there are not that many bands like The Human League.

The Human League, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. (2014) full post

(621 words, 1 image, estimated 2:29 mins reading time)

The Human League, Gig Review. o2 Apollo, Manchester.

Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Human League is one the seminal bands to come out of South Yorkshire and alongside Heaven 17 and A.B.C. formed a successful triumvirate that took the U.K. charts by storm in the 1980’s. Fast forward 35 years and the crowd at the Manchester Apollo are brimming with excitement at seeing Philip Oakey, Joanne Catherall and Susan Sulley stand on stage once more.

The Human League, Gig Review. o2 Apollo, Manchester. full post

(448 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

The Human League, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. December 7th 2010.

To many, one of the stand out bands of the early 1980’s was The Human League. Genre defining and one of the early exponents of the slick style of video that the decade produced in abundance. Their music was considered much loved and has been parodied lovingly in certain advertisements since their early heyday.

The Human League, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(361 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)