Tag Archives: Thunder

Thunder, All The Right Noises. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Making All The Right Noises means nothing if you cannot deliver upon your actions. You can create a sound that stimulates your own imagination, but if you dare not bring it to the people, then like the untethered thought, it will just fly off into the ether, disappearing quicker than a ripple of polite applause at a talent contest that nobody wanted to attend.

Thunder, Please Remain Seated. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Fluidity is all the rage, fashionable even, it is perhaps an argument which is necessary in this day and age as we search for a wider definition of what it means to be human, what it means to be an individual. To be flexible in your thinking does not mean you are betraying your beliefs, just open-minded to the possibility that there is more than just your philosophy which shapes the world, and which has at one time guided the past.

Thunder, Rip It Up. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Rip It Up, tear the contracts of our lives apart, into a thousand pieces which in a light breeze dance like butterflies and fall like memories, Rip It Up, start again from scratch and in the blink of an eye you would find yourself in the midst of a revolution between the ears for the mind would argue what came before will always smash the modern apart.

Thunder, Wonder Days. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Memories of our youth are perhaps the greatest we hold onto. They are the ghostly images in which form and shape the future and they are the ones that remind us of how far we have come. Youth though also works to remind us that every day we wake up and put our feet on the cold hard floor that we have a debt to owe our former selves and the need to better our position, spiritually as well as mentally, is burned into the back of a black and white photograph hidden somewhere in an insect nibbled box.

The Union, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Even if you knew the fact, to hear Pete Shoulder say with more than a hint of apology in his voice that it was The Union’s first foray into the Liverpool’s music conscious was still more than a little surprising. With two members of arguably one of the great British Rock bands of the last 30 years, the soul affirming and musically forceful Thunder, in The Union, it seems almost remiss that the o2 Academy or any of the other vibrant venues in the city have not had the honour of hosting this exciting group.

Thunder, Gig Review. Hammersmith Apollo, London.

Originally published by L.S.Media. July 14th 2009.

The tour has been billed as twenty years and out! A commemoration and a memorial for one of the most consistent rock acts of the last two decades deciding for the second and final time to bow out from recording and touring. The previous night had seen the band greeted with some incredible emotion by a pumped up Wolverhampton crowd. On the last night of the tour and with only an outside appearance at Sonasphere for their faithful fans to look forward to, the Hammersmith Apollo played host to the final indoors gig by this great British band.

Thunder, Gig Review. Civic Hall. Wolverhampton.

Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by The Birmingham Mail. July 2009.

After 20 years together and nine studio albums to their name, Thunder returned to Wolverhampton as part of their farewell tour, having announced some months ago that they were calling time on their career.

They didn’t disappoint, kicking off the night with the energetic Backstreet Symphony, the title track of their debut album. From that moment, the audience let them know they will be missed by giving a huge roar of satisfaction at the end of every song.

Thunder, Gig Review. Civic Hall, Wolverhampton.

Originally published by The Birmingham Mail. November 2008.

AC/DC’s Thunderstruck heralded the arrival of Thunder on stage and from that moment the audience was firmly held in an iron grip.

A loud pyrotechnic burst signalled “The Bang” but then Thunder went back to their first album and the Backstreet Symphony.  This was followed by two songs from the recently released album Bang, the tongue in cheek On The Radio and Carol Ann and finished with the perennial crowd pleaser Dirty Love which left the audience breathless.

Ian D. Hall

Thunder, Gig Review. Civic Hall, Wolverhampton.

Originally published by The Birmingham Mail. November 2007.

One thing you can guarantee at a Thunder gig is that you will be joined by some of the most vocal and dedicated fans in rock today.

By opening the set with Dirty Dream from last year’s Robert Johnson’s Tombstone album and the excellent Last Man Standing Thunder set their stall out to entertain.

They continued to huge applause from a capacity crowd with The Devil Made Me Do It and the love song I’ll Be Waiting.