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Steve Earle To Perform In Liverpool In August.

After many years of numerous awards, extensive solo/acoustic tours, successful acting roles on HBO’s The Wire, and Treme; Steve Earle, the rabble rousing godfather of the alternative country scene is back to tour around Europe in 2014, including an exclusive performance at the Liverpool Auditorium (Echo Arena) on August 20^th 2014.

With his most recent release in 2013 The Low Highway, the 2011 U.K. chart topper I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive, Grammy Award winning 2009 release of his tribute album Townes, and going back even further to his Number One debut album Guitar Town, Earle has an extensive back catalogue which ranges to just under 30 years ago.

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The Art Of Falling Apart, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Tim Lynskey, Matt Rutter.

Monty Python may have sold its last dead parrot, served its last piece of Spam and finally insisted that he is not the Messiah, he is just a naughty boy but that’s not to say what has been bequeathed down the years has been forgotten, especially by the three men that make up Big Wow and arguably one of the finest pieces of comedy theatre that you ever likely to lay your eyes upon in The Art of Falling Apart.

The Art Of Falling Apart, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(428 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote Of La Mancha, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Stephen Harper, Merce Ribot, Patricia Rodriguez, Maria Camahort.

To anyone who has ever taken the time to read arguably one of the great novels, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha or have even spent time in the beautiful medieval part of the city of Alcalá de Henares and looked upon Cervantes’ birthplace, then it is to know history. You can only ever wonder just what would make anybody want to even attempt to take it on a theatre piece; you would have to be as mad surely as Don Quixote himself to even try it.

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote Of La Mancha, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

Space, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling. Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9^1/2/10

Space at St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

High above the city a banner unfurled as it was being towed along by a plane. It was un-missable, which was the point, to anybody who craned their neck and strained their eyesight to a limit not recommended by Opticians. In keeping with the tone of the weekend’s events and as hundreds of thousands packed any available square inch of pavement to them, the banner simply read, “There Are Giants In Town”. That there was but possibly not the ones the pilot was thinking of as he dragged the banner through the summer sky.

Space, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling. Liverpool. full post

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Jetta, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling. Liverpool.

Jetta at St. Lukes Church, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8/10

In amongst all the Rock that was being played out to those gathered inside St. Luke’s, an amount of grace was needed and who better than Jetta to give the audience a certain amount of elegance and refined style as the steamy day gave way to warm evening appeal.

Jetta, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling. Liverpool. full post

(372 words, 1 image, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

The Sundowners, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling. Liverpool.

The Sundowners, St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool. Liverpool Calling. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Class shows at all times, flair is a trait that just announces itself before a word is spoken, an action inspired or a thought performed in the cold hazy obscured light or in the realms of a thousand eyes trained upon the deed; for The Sundowners, class is ready to be achieved at all times.

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The Mono LPs, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling, Liverpool.

Ste Reid of The Mono Lps at St. Lukes Chuch, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Liverpool called out, giants strode the roads and alleys as if they had appeared out of a C.S. Lewis manuscript and inside St. Luke’s Church another set of giants, ones not controlled by puppetry, man nor machine took to stage and showed once more just why they are such an exciting, tremendously warm and energetic band to watch live.

The Mono LPs, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling, Liverpool. full post

(486 words, 1 image, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Cavalry, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling. Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8^1/2/10Watching the smooth nature of Liverpool’s Cavalry on stage inside St. Luke’s Church it strikes you that life, especially music, is sometimes cruel. In another time, another era of Britain’s music history and only half a life time ago for many in the audience of the bombed out church, Alan Croft, Austin Logan, Steven Taylor, Paul James Jones and Gareth Dawson would have many a label scrapping with each other to have dibs on their precious signatures.

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Southbound Attic Band, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling. Liverpool.

Southbound Attic Band at Liverpool Calling, St. Lukes Church. July 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Coming on stage for Liverpool Calling 2014 inside St. Luke’s Church, the two members of the Southbound Attic Band made the self-effacing quip that they were the token oldies on show that day. Whilst it was a joke, what they bought to the event in the under threat Bombed Out Church was nothing short of genuine, panache ridden and on par with anything else played on a hot summer’s day in Liverpool.

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Gold Jacks, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling. Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Gold Jacks at the St Luk’e Church as part of Liverpool Calling 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Effortless, a joy to listen to, as naturally showman like as you want and uncomplicated, this pretty much sums up what it is like to hear Manchester based band Gold Jacks for the first time.

Gold Jacks, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool Calling. Liverpool. full post

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