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Pete King, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016.

To have one King in your life is to have good fortune, to acquire a second, that is the sound of destiny calling, of the riches of father-son genes and love for music being passed down and it is one that unfolds and reveals that talent is blessed and prosperous.

The sensational Derek King had already paved the way for Liverpool Acoustic’s contribution to the Saturday of We Shall Overcome, and as the day hurtled towards its natural end, as the music began to drift to the more electric sound elsewhere in the city, the final flourish, the flag raised high on a fantastic and well conducted afternoon of music inside Sound Food and Drink was unfurled by the next generation of King, the creative and magical Pete King.

Pete King, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016. full post

(395 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Lauren Davenport, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016.

There is a point in which all the music in the world, all that you have ever listened to all boils down to how it makes you feel, you can analyse the guitar, the fretwork, the notes, the absolute genius of it all, all you want. In the end though it comes down to the way the writer, the player, makes you feel and in Lauren Davenport there is an emotion waiting to pour itself out onto the page that is wonderfully unique.

Lauren Davenport, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016. full post

(329 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

Three Minute Hero, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016.

The element of surprise, some handle the responsibility, some faint at the prospect, some surprise, some last minute addition just make the whole experience so complete that it is hard to have imagined the day without it ever having been so. Last minute surprise to the bill at Sound Food and Drink for the We Shall Overcome was the ever impressive figure of Three Minute Hero, the champion of the lyric, Stuart Todd, and as always the man and the musician was on top form.

Three Minute Hero, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016. full post

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

Lauren Davenport, E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The act of yearning is one that can never be ignored completely, you can try to shut it out, you can dampen the effects, mask them with other issues in your life, however the ache to experience whatever set your heart aflame in the beginning will always find a way to sneak back in an unguarded moment and take the craving on further, deeper and become more entrenched in the psyche.

Lauren Davenport, E.P. Review. full post

(379 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Liza Mulholland, Fine ‘n’ Rosy. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Scottish city of Inverness offers a rare sense of welcome the moment you step onto its incredibly long platform, the city of the north, the place where the old intercity trains made their final stop and in the distance the suspected resting place of Lady Macbeth is said to be stowed. Inverness is in many ways the finest of places to come from, arguably it is also one steeped in enough beauty to make anyone want to sing with passion, it welcomes the Fine ‘n’ Rosy cheeked.

Liza Mulholland, Fine ‘n’ Rosy. Album Review. full post

(434 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Deacon Blue, Believers. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Elegance is not a right, the sophistication of a song is not created by accident or by design, it is merely down to the attitude of the musician and the mutual bond that was formed in the early lyrical squeeze offered as the first note captured their affections. Tastes in both can change, an early love can become an embarrassment, a song once mooned over and protestations of love declared can become the memory of horror and the refusal to play it for anyone. In the end elegance is where the love remains and where the Believers stamp their authority.

Deacon Blue, Believers. Album Review. full post

(403 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

In Truth.

A curious answer

to the question I never asked you,

it was always preceded

with the bluff

and Universe cold

“In truth?” which always led me

down the path of contemplating

going back out the freshly felled oak door

I had just walked in

and perhaps spending another

seven hours at work, bored,

going out of my mind, mind

numbing tedium

rather than listen to what came next out

of your unimaginative head;

complaint after complaint,

it is your job,

it is your responsibility,

In Truth. full post

(141 words, estimated 34 secs reading time)

Kevin Critchley, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016.

They used to say good things come to those who wait, that patience between events was the virtue in which to aspire; a hangover from the Victorian era in which we are still reaping the disaster of the times from; the painful way of believing that self denial is a good thing when it comes to appreciation. They used to say a lot of things but hardly any of it is relevant in 21st Century, especially the Victorian’s attitude to the poor and the destitute, the infirm and those to whom Government decisions effect negatively.

Kevin Critchley, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016. full post

(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Derek King, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016.

Liverpool’s acoustic scene would not be the same without the people who donate so much of their time and energy to make sure the musicians are heard and given a major platform to show their talent and their inspirations off to. It is point that should be mentioned often, that so many superb musicians play in the city and get their audience in the effort of Liverpool Acoustic; a realm of enlightened attitude which does all the greatest of service.

Derek King, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016. full post

(417 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Tom George, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016.

To combine poetry and music is a realm many dream of, yes the lyrical genius of many a song-writer is steeped in the stuff of Zeus’ sentiment to humanity, the gentle coaxing of the heart stopping shock and adoration laid down by Jove in the guise of the Balladeer to their latest muse. However, it takes great wit and fortitude to delve between the two states of deliberation, the twin flirtations with an audience and not be seen as anything than heroic whilst upon the stage.

Tom George, Gig Review. Sound Food And Drink, Liverpool. We Shall Overcome 2016. full post

(414 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)