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It Bites, Map of the Past. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 26th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

If there is such a thing as a marriage made in Heaven, then the day John Mitchell and Lee Pomeroy joined It Bites must surely be the closest moment for fans of Progressive Rock.

Map of the Past is only the second album that John Mitchell, John Beck, Bob Dalton and Lee Pomeroy have worked together on under the name of It Bites, however like 2008’s The Tall Ships, Map of the Past is an album that may have been long in its delivery but the result is so well worth the wait.

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All American Rejects, Kids in the Street. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 27th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating **

All American Rejects’ new offering Kids in the Street is an album that honestly could have delivered so much more. However, it comes across as collection of songs that sound half-finished and that the care and attention that had been in evidence on the previous two albums has evaporated and dissipated as the band delved further into the recording.

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(430 words, 1 image, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Interview With Donna Lesley Price, Director Of Our Country’s Good At The Lantern Theatre.

Donna Lesley Price. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 27th 2012.

Donna Lesley Price is a busy woman. Not content with an abundance of writing material that is ready to be showcased and gearing up to take her fantastic show, If The Shoe Fits, across to the Floral Pavilion for three dates in August she also has taken on the mantle of directing Our Country’s Goodat the Lantern Theatre this week for Kick Theatre.

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(1111 words, 1 image, estimated 4:27 mins reading time)

Iron Maiden, En Vivo. Live Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media.  March 29th 2012.

There is nothing at all as artistically satisfying as catching a band at their absolute best, perhaps seeing your team finally win a cup comes close but it still doesn’t compare to witnessing at first hand a group or even a solo singer nail every song they have gone on stage to perform as perfectly as they can and then some.

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Joe Bonamassa, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Joe Bonamassa at the Echo Arena, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 29th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Somebody reminded Joe Bonamassa during his visit to Liverpool that the first time he played near the city, in the excellent venue that was just a well-aimed cannon ball shot across the Mersey to Pacific Road in Birkenhead. In that seemingly short time, Joe has gone onto be one of the greatest guitarists in the world. Technically stunning and with no short comings at all, not musically or as decent human being it seems either.

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

Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson, Thick As A Brick 2. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. April 5th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

There will be those that tell you that the concept album died a painless death during the 1970’s, there will further still those that maintain there was a brief hurrah in the mid 1980’s, and without wishing to compound the issue, there will be the modern audience’s assertion that the 21st century has seen the genre stay vital, drawing breath and propagating and influencing others from Green Day and My Chemical Romance.

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The Sums, Gig Review. Zanibar Club, Seel Street, Liverpool.

Peter Deary, Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by L.S. Media. April 8th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

There are fewer finer sights than to see a man in full flight on a stage at the Zanzibar. Peter ‘Digsy’ Deary may appear understated but the man is a legend in Liverpool, a man who, like a few others from the area, commands respect and when he doesn’t get it, it not only rankles him, but the band and his legion of fans as well.

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Does This Train Stop on Merseyside? The Very Best Of Ian Prowse. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. April 8th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

You only have to listen to the first track on The Very Best of Ian Prowse to know that not only is this an album of distinction and that if you cut him open, from every open pore and scratched surface would run the Mersey River, the biggest and most truthful aspect of the album is that it is Liverpool.

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Counting Crows, Underwater Sunshine (Or What I Did On Our Summer Vacation). Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. April 9th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Perhaps they were after the longest album title of the year, thankfully the new offering from Counting Crows, Underwater Sunshine (Or What I Did On Our Summer Vacation) doesn’t detract from the incredible sound that comes out of the speakers at you. It doesn’t so much as crash out at you at a speed that’s unfathomable, it more meanders, slowly, carefully, sits down at your table, eats a few meals with you and before you know it, you wonder how it managed to hang around and become essential listening.

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Accept, Stalingrad. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. April 10th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Arguably one of the best Heavy Metal bands to come out of Germany, Accept have released one of their finest albums in years and even though to the person who dips in and out of the genre and whose knowledge stops at the moment where “it becomes too loud” it has to be said they are missing out on an album of incredible intensity and sublime electric guitars coupled with lyrics that dig beneath the heart of any metal fans psyche and the reason why the music speaks to more and more fans.

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