Tag Archives: Yes

Yes, The Quest. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The search for what was lost on the way can often provide a sense of solace that cannot be found by simply soldiering on almost aimlessly, carrying on out of the force of habit and the indoctrination of tradition.

When we consider that the undertaking at hand is more than a mere journey, and instead that the purpose is to assume that there is indeed an acceptance of fate at stake, then what is revealed to those around you is the reflection of The Quest to come; and as with all self-sacrificing missions, the physical and the abandonment of ego, it becomes clear that rebirth, a renaissance of return can be found waiting to be played for the audience.

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(586 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)

David Gilmour, Yes, I Have Ghosts. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We look back upon our life and see regrets, the misspoke words, the decision not fully endorsed, the anger, the kick of shame; these moments find ways to hang around us, even in the most blameless life, regrets turn into spectres, into phantasms that stay in our vision, taunting us, reminding us that we once created havoc, once we built a wall of mayhem for others to knock down.

David Gilmour, Yes, I Have Ghosts. Single Review. full post

(366 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Yes, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. (2018).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Yes at the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool. March 2018. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

It is the longevity of certain bands that inhabit the Progressive Rock genre that makes the prospect of certain anniversaries a moment to salivate, and whilst nothing can last forever, that at some point the world has to give way to the next generation, that age rather than the dullness of the senses is what comes for us all.

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(527 words, 1 image, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Yes, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It was perhaps fitting that the spontaneous applause, the sound of appreciation and love, would fill the vast expanse of the Philharmonic Hall before a note was even played, before the band appeared on stage and took their customary glances and smiles out to a sea of known faces and the curious at heart. This was Liverpool’s night to say thanks to the memory of Yes own heart, its own beating machine of 45 years and the applause was enough to recognise that whilst Yes were in the building, Chris Squire was going to be missed on stage.

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(450 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Yes, Heaven & Earth. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Evolution is a wondrous event to behold, revolution can, in part, be just as thrilling; especially when it means the old guard whose ideas have come to a natural end are swept away. To place both progressions into the same album though can seem as though for some, that the world has been turned upside down and that Progressive has just a little bit of its enormous and well-meaning heart.

Yes, arguably the long standing Prog Rock band still going from the initial burst of creative freedom in which Prog bought to the world, somehow have possibly released the worst record of their sustained career.

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(407 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Blackburner, Planet Earth Attack. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Mix the industrial with a healthy dollop of some of the finest exponents of Progressive Rock, some genre crossing of dubstep and Heavy Metal and finally one of the megastars and iconic figures of Science Fiction film and television and you have the superb new Blackburner album Planet Earth Attack in all its grandiose and lavish glory.

William Shatner, the one and only Captain Kirk from television’s Star Trek,is no stranger to adding his unique tone of voice to another artist’s idea but from the start of the Skyla Talon’s produced album, with its eclectic and brutally dystopian future soundscapes, it sets the ultimate and stunning start to the aggressive and dominant music.

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(383 words, 1 image, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Yes, Fly From Here. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. July 5th 2011.

For the first time in 10 years, Progressive Rock pioneers Yes have delivered an album onto the British Public and the outcome is nothing short of marvellous.

Fly from Here is the band’s first studio album since the release of 2001’s Magnification and even though the personnel has once more changed, it comes across as superbly arranged and decently produced and with none of the whispers of pretension that has dogged the band over the years. Whether this is down to the influence of producer Trevor Horn, who as a former Yes member, albeit briefly, understands the point that the musicians always try to get across or the band gelling superbly and rallying round to come up with a fine album.

Yes, Fly From Here. Album Review. full post

(382 words, 1 image, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Yes, Prime Minister, Theatre Review. Apollo Theatre, London.

Cast: Simon Williams, Richard McCabe, Chris Larkin, Charlotte Lucas, Kevork Malikyan, Jonathon Coote, Michael Chadwick, Mark Extance, Sarah Baxendale.

Some comedies are created great, some achieve greatness and then there was the political satire that set the bar so high it had greatness thrust upon it and the sincerest kind of admiration that Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister deserved.

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(405 words, 1 image, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Yes, Gig Review. Birmingham Symphony Hall.

Originally published by L.S.Media. November 15th 2011.

L.S.Media Rating ***

It was perhaps fitting that  Progressive Rock giants Yes came on stage to Benjamin Britten’s Young person’s Guide to the Orchestra, for the Symphony Hall in Birmingham is one of the most perfect places in the Midlands that blends itself with the music that Yes are universally loved and renowned for.

The subtle yet emotionally flowing guitar of Steve Howe, alongside stalwarts of the band Chris Squire on bass and the ideal drumming technique of Alan White mixed with the outrageously great keyboard playing of Geoff Downes is a combination of sound that everybody should hear at least once in their life. It’s no wonder that these four men fit together so well, the music they create is sometimes just astonishing.

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(384 words, 1 image, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)