Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

After the drama of a cold winter, the sunshine that seemed to bleach the sadness and concerns of Liverpool away for a while at the end of February day was one that bought a huge reflex of musical entertainment to the crowd, almost wrapped in awe, to the support set of Jenny Colquitt at the Philharmonic Music Room as she opened with expertise and charm ahead of Paul Dunbar’s album release.

One of her final songs of the evening, Poet On The Street, stands as testament to the force of Liverpool’s music scene, the poetic nature of the language, the dynamic groove to which the sound of love, anger, anarchy, insight, and the collective turns in which shared limelight is not only encouraged, it is positively fortified with confidence and inspired passion.

Jenny Colquitt has never been short of any emotional prowess, her songs have always captured the breath of time as seen through the eyes of a poet, of one who does not discard life as just a throw away moment, but one who lives and sees each rippling sinew of observation as a possible subject, and as she performed tracks such as the opener How Do You Feel?, I Wanna Know, Shape, To Be Loved, All Of My Friends (Lonely), Without You, the aforementioned Poet On The Street, and the finale of Dirty Town, what stood out was the imperative reasoning of her lyrics, whether from an earlier time in her career or with the unveiling of new songs that will come to fruition when her latest album is released in a couple of months, these weaved words and heart pleasing guitar and keyboards are there to be admired, lauded, and praised.

A new spring in the air, the sound of beauty and polished emotions, a grounding for the audience and observer as 2026 suddenly offers so much, and without doubt Jenny Colquitt will be there leading the songs into battle against the dullness portrayed by others; and winning gloriously.

Ian D. Hall