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Pete Wylie, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool. (2014)

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Great songs are the only currency that counts. It really is that simple.

So, with a successful Pledge campaign in his back pocket and a brand new guitarist and consigliore standing stage left, Pete Wylie returned to The Zanzibar to wrap up his busiest year in a decade, before turning attention to the imminent recording of a new album.

Pete Wylie, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Close your eyes and think for a minute of one of the men and women who exemplifies the whole Liverpool sound, the charm and the no-nonsense, the humour and the artistic vision all wrapped up in lyrics that make you both beam with pride and raise a fist in solidarity alongside. The sound you hear is one that you might not have heard for a while, the tone of voice still sweet, the manner of the anger and resentment to some still intense and charismatic and the utter magnetism of the performer is such that daring to take a peek through gripped and straining fingers becomes too much. For it is true Pete Wylie, the man who has a street map of his home city indelibly stamped into the very fabric of his D.N.A., is back thrilling audiences once more.

Fallen Streams, Lookin’ Up. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

From the depths of the passing of Liverpool’s Sheerwater, Fallen Streams resurfaces. The band, which contains Mark Dawson on vocals and guitars and the superb Jack Beacall on keyboards have taken off where the previous named incarnation left off and whilst for less discerning types they may struggle with the difference and ask what does it matter what they are called, the difference is they have become even better, an improvement if that was ever possible and the name change? Well that only matters in the overall scheme of things, otherwise they still have the same fantastic attitude that first got them that all important attention in 2011.