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Westlife’s Shane Filan To Perform At The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

Shane Filan has announced that he will be touring the U.K. as a solo artist for the first time in February and March of 2014. The tour will see Shane play 13 headline dates across the U.K. and Ireland including a show on the 20th February at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

Shane Filan said, “I’m so excited to be heading out on my first ever solo tour. The album ‘You and Me’ means so much to me and I cannot wait to play these songs live in front of an audience, and of course there will be some old fan favourites from memory lane and a couple of surprises in there too. Hope to see you all there”

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Trembling Bells To Perform At The Capstone Theatre And Leaf This October.

The Capstone Theatre and Mellowtone are delighted to be joining forces to bring audiences the acclaimed folk-rock group Trembling Bells for two complimentary performances, kicking off on Tuesday 15th October at The Capstone Theatre followed by a second show performing a different set at Leaf Tea Rooms, Bold Street on Monday 21st October.

As an incredible added bonus for fans; Mike Heron (of Incredible String band) will also be joining the band for their performance at The Capstone Theatre on 15th October. The show, The Circle is Unbroken, celebrates Mike Heron’s legacy in his 70th year. The concert highlights their musical sympathies, as they exchange material in an evening comprised of classic Incredible String Band songs, and the contemporary tunes of Trembling Bells.

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Zappa Plays Zappa’s Seminal Roxy & Elsewhere At The Philharmonic Hall This November.

Zappa Plays Zappa, the Grammy winning group that features Frank Zappa’s son, Dweezil Zappa has made and recreated history performing the music of Frank Zappa over the past 8 years, is set to embark on an epic musical trek across the U.K. celebrating the classic Frank Zappa album Roxy & Elsewhere.

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of that pivotal Zappa fan favourite, the entirety of its repertoire, including the provocative rhythms of Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing?, Echidna’s Arf (Of You) and Be-Bop Tango (of the Old Jazzmen’s Church)”* will be performed live on stage.

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Satyricon, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Some groups need no introduction; the pulsating power that seeps out of every pore smacks with such intensity that Krakatoa hangs its head in shame for causing a whimpering fuss. For Satyricon, the power is magnified by a considerable factor, as if the island that blew itself apart had dug deep into the Earth’s core and found a big brother to stand behind it.

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The Cornmarket Acoustic Club Provides Great Entertainment At First Ever Festival.

The Cornmarket Acoustic Club has been part of the Liverpool spirit of music for three years and yet somehow a festival has been missing from the clubs social calendar – until now.

With music being a central point in Liverpool, perhaps only matched by the abundant love shown towards its two football teams, there is always somewhere to go, some alleyway in which the sound of a pleasing saxophone, the gentle guitar or demanding vocal drifts to the music lover’s ear and takes root and begs to be explored. The Cornmarket Acoustic Club feeds on this and gives so much in return and whilst they have travelled far from the early ethos of being a folk club, music is still very much king and is benevolent enough in which even the art of poetry gets to share the stage.

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Ukulele Club Liverpool, Gig Review. The Cornmarket, Cornmarket Acoustic Festival. Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The ukulele might be seen as a poor relation in terms of musical instruments to some, however within this small beast lies the beating heart of a scheming God and in the hands of the Ukulele Club Liverpool, that beating heart thumps as loudly as you could possibly wish.

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John Williams, Gig Review. The Cornmarket, Cornmarket Acoustic Festival. Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Watching John Williams perform, no matter the setting, has the same feeling of contentment thrust upon you as someone giving you a five star hotel room for the weekend and charging you only a pound for the pleasure. As he stood with guitar in hand and the guitar/violinist of choice, and with Elizabeth Kearney from Nighthowl by his side, the moment of absolute enjoyment was stretched out and unfolded at a rate that would reflect the day, laid back but with the sense of history being made and for that John Williams gave a near exemplary performance in which all assembled revelled in.

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Caro Emerald, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Caro Emerald’s 2013 album, The Shocking Miss Emerald, has set more than a tone for music in the second decade in the 21st Century, it has set a bar that matches the intensity and atmosphere that Kate Bush in the 70s, Madonna in the 80s and Tori Amos in the 90s managed to frame and capture with their pivotal albums. As she came on stage for the first time in Liverpool, the mystique, the allure and the talent followed her, the voice captivated the audience completely and the music enveloped all like a comfortable and much loved blanket.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Richie Grice.

Richie Grice cuts a commanding but ultimately loveable figure as he sits before you. His love of comedy radiates outwards from the very time you meet him and he certainly knows his stuff and his ready laugh is easy and a joyous thing to hear whenever you mention something that tickles his own funny bone.

With rehearsals well under way for Bon Voyage at The Epstein Theatre, which stars the superb Lindzi Germain and the legendary Mickey Finn, I was able to catch ten precious minutes with the man who co-wrote the play with Paul Nicholson at The Garden at FACT and ask him his thoughts on the play and on comedy.

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Snakecharmer, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

For an album, a piece of recording history, to hold so much individual and seemingly disparate talent and turn it into a record such wealth and barnstorming enjoyment is either locked away in the recesses of the Rock music fan’s mind, ready to be spieled out in a lull of conversation in a pub one Friday night or actually physically existing in the form of Snakecharmer’s self-titled and cracking debut album.

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