Tag Archives: Two Black Sheep

Two Black Sheep, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

In the right hands the combination of guitar and violin is one of extreme beauty, they complement each other, they add a mournful dynamic to joy, they imagine upbeat righteousness in the midst of passion and yet they also bring a sound of hope to a place where life is in need of comfort; it matters not if the sound is one of the ethereal or inscribed with a regimental jig, what matters is that the heart and soul of a song is joined together by the players and their instruments.

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Two Black Sheep, The Earth Below. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We don’t know what goes on in The Earth Below, we all too often train our thoughts on the horizon or indeed towards the stars, so consumed are we by the world that we can see, that we forget there is a whole world that sings to us, hoping to catch our ear from deep in the soil, reminding us to reveal layer by layer what has been buried, not only in the ground, but in our souls and hearts.

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Two Black Sheep, Gig Review. Music Rooms, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 9/10

Two Black Sheep at the Music Room in Liverpool. December 2018. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

In an age of disagreements and conflict, of homogenous mingling and beige uniform, to follow your own path is to be admired, to insist upon your own space and not follow the herd is to be congratulated, to reject the conventional is respected; nothing and no one is truly identical in thought and deed. When it comes to Two Black Sheep, the tune they play is one consistently pure, so against type and yet one on which can count upon, to stir the chops and get the fans talking of the combination at the heart of the matter.

Two Black Sheep, Gig Review. Music Rooms, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(443 words, 1 image, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Two Black Sheep, Coffee & Gin. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The historical and social significance of Coffee & Gin cannot be easily dismissed as part of the way the people of Britain lead their lives in the 21st Century; Hogarth’s famous Beer and Gin Lane printing depicting the social ills of Gin Lane is tempered by the 18th Century’s love and seeming respectability of the advancing coffee houses that were springing up all over capital. Yet the two are probably more interlinked than they ever probably were intended to be and the slow death assured by the drinking of foreign Gin is enough to remember the addiction many have to the bean in the century we find ourselves feeding.

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