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To capture the zeitgeist in times of warning and anguish is arguably a consideration of perfect observation and the draw of the artist’s vigilance, and one that must always be thought as beautiful as well as a study of the human condition.
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The first thought might not always be the one that ends up on paper, but it is the one to which you return to for inspiration at a later date, like a kiss from your first date, it is the comparison to which all others are others are sized, judged, considered, and it the act in which you witness the act of the proclamation of Love Me, and how a marriage of ideas can be brought forth and unified from that single initial moment.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
All your prayers are answered, the conversation with the gods has been noted and the outcome is one in which the incredible Liverpool band, The Mono LPs, return in the robes of a messenger having visited a wise Oracle, guarding a proclamation so deep, so meaningful, that the response from the Heavens is one that is earth shattering, upbeat and full of the exuberance you would need to shout, Hell, Save My Soul.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Vicky Mutch at Studio 2. September 2017.
Not everything in life is a stroll, often we take the great moments for granted and always use them as the bench mark of how we must approach a new setback or pitfall. If everything was a stroll then the way we see the way of solving the setback would be just like taking a step around a small puddle in the middle of the pavement, we would just bypass it with a blasé demeanour, it would nothing more to us than even breathing or staring at the world and wondering why it had become so dull and predictable.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Seeing any one of Liverpool’s enjoyable and talented bands on the multitude of stages that hug the city is to be surely viewed as a mixture of honour and pleasure.
To be able to see the raw, the passionate and the creative mood in which is a source of life blood for The Mersey, is to know that the world still turns, that despite all the fury that government can reign down on the planet, there will always be groups and solo artists that stick their hands in the air and ask if the powers that be can cope with what’s coming next. The storm as it were fighting back with a smile, and that’s what you have in the sense of The Mono LPs, four musicians who make you sweat with anticipation and pure heart, who seriously pound the strings and the skin with venom and absolute assurance.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The problems with anything that gets the heart pumping and the brain falling in love is that you have to be prepared to wait to bring it to the attention of the world, the slow unveil, tantalising, dramatic, full of tension and appeal; if music was a lover then waiting to implore others on why the relationship works would be torture.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
This year will be remembered for many things, so many events that it might actually overshadow the surrounding years around it when people turn their mind to writing the annals of the century; so many distinctive voices lost, so many people who have given enormous pleasure and the arsenal of self respect to others taken from us, that it leaves a darkness, a gloomy shade of pale bitterness in the lives of those left behind.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are times when you just want to round up the four members of The Mono LPs and shake them by the hand for giving you a few minutes of absolute pleasure, longer of course if you are fortunate to catch them live. However, for the time it takes for their new single Emilia to reach its explosive end, not only do you want to shake them by the hand but you would offer them anything to release a double album in which to sink the entire day into.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
For anybody who has indulged their music whims, the caprice of cerebral cornucopia that flows from the heart of The Mono LPs live set, the cry of where is a C.D. in which to revel alongside at home has been a vexing one. Thankfully, as with all things, time rewards the patient, it offers the chance to get deep down and logically dirty with a band who are one of the major reasons in which to play great quality music in the second decade of the 21st Century.
Ste Reid of The Mono Lps at St. Lukes Chuch, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Liverpool called out, giants strode the roads and alleys as if they had appeared out of a C.S. Lewis manuscript and inside St. Luke’s Church another set of giants, ones not controlled by puppetry, man nor machine took to stage and showed once more just why they are such an exciting, tremendously warm and energetic band to watch live.