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The Southbound Attic Band, The Best Of The Southbound Attic Band. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The best of The Southbound Attic Band doesn’t even cover how enormously satisfying, how gracious, and how much fun it is to be in the presence of Barry Jones and Ronnie Clark as they perform on stage in various venues in their home town; if anything, the finest band that the vast majority of the U.K has yet to discover, is the sense of occasion they bring to your ears as they undoubtedly offer a view of the world of acceptance, tolerance, love and humour, where they are to are to be fully enjoyed.

The Southbound Attic Band, The Willows Suite. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is a tale so beloved that it has had generations of children, and many adults, reading with the intensity of love and interest and finding that nature is truly a wondrous and bountiful place in which to find inspiration and joy from. Kenneth Grahame’s beautifully observed allegory and part reference to the English Pastoral is captured with vivid imagination in the book The Wind in the Willows and the characters are one of the few from that period that beneath the skin of a society that is now almost unrecognisable and one that beats in the heart and resonates with a yearning to return to simpler times.

The Southbound Attic Band, Gig Review. Write Blend, Waterloo.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

An evening with one of Liverpool’s favourite set of performers has arguably never been so laid back, filled with sensational imagery and the wonderful harking back to childhood reminisce as the sound of The Southbound Attic Band gently resonated though the pages of abundant books and the visibly moved audience at Waterloo’s cultural oasis of Write Blend.

The Southbound Attic Band, Our Day In The Sun. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are those that seemingly take great pleasure in deriding the power of Folk music. They are willing to sneer and complain that the story, often or not a tale of great morality with twists that raise a smile, is irreverent to the way of the world now. It is not a complaint that passes the lips of those that have Celtic blood raging through their hearts or those with an understanding that Folk, whether Celtic, European or English, touches upon the very nature of communication, simple, effective and memorable.