Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
To be considered a legend you must have spent a lifetime not only rolling with the punches, but also been willing to throw a few in return, to not be a person guarantees an affection of Time, the unbreakable bond between satisfaction and the clobbering appreciation for your worth to the public.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
To wander into a cigarette smoke filled underground New York jazz venue during the height of decadence during the early to mid-1920s is a dream for those who see style and music as having an interlocked grip on the hearts and minds of those who attend certain gigs and performances; to step back in time, to feel a carefree sense of existence against the horrors that have perpetually dogged and beaten us, that is the dream of those who find themselves rightfully enamoured with Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox and their jazz/ragtime artful twist they place on the contemporary and the beloved hits of the 20th Century.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
A man can surely not be all things to all men, but he can be an architect, a painter, and a social commentator in one timeless motion, a thinker, a polymath of the soul to whom art captures the most seemingly everyday emotions and sights and turns them into a dramatic exercise of human observations and the nuance of portrayal of stories and weaved musical charm.
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The air is filled with the sound of expectation, the faithful 3000 inside the M & S Bank Arena that adds an extra sense of gravitas to the historic view of the skyline of Liverpool’s waterfront can feel the intensity of solemnity radiating from the back of the stage as the momentum and the drama of music that emanates from the guitar of Joe Bonamassa is ready to deal all the aces in a night of high value and atmospheric pulses that went on to rock the space inside the venue with passion and the sound of freedom.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The appeal of Chris de Burgh thankfully never wavers, the consummate professional on stage, the twinkle in the delivery between songs, the genuine affection of his fans as they elevate the mild mannered star to the threshold of immortality…this is no glib statement, but an observation as the singer songwriter returns to Liverpool on the first night of his latest tour, and seeing him work the sense of the common man into an artform; and he endeared himself to the crowd, you could feel the drama of his songs play out, as he intends, as the audio cinematic touch overwhelms and passionately throws hearts into a flutter.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Greatness for many abound when they hear the signature chord of a song that grants them a superpower of memory, of instant recall and evoking of clarity, the weekends spent in a pub of choice and deciding between friends the ultimate juke box serenade in which the change scraped together would be exchanged for songs that broke and mended hearts, that pushed the sense of exploration from the mind and soul and taught the multitude what it meant to sit in the same company, relish the same ideals of taste, and become in the end, a better person for understanding just exactly how Meat Loaf and The Eagles, how Fleetwood Mac and Heart can exist in the same genre and be rightly glorified for their presence on Earth.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The show must always go on, the dedication to the cause despite all that life may casually throw at you must continue unabashed and with sincerity be held up for all to witness; for you never know who you may inspire with just a simple acknowledgement of your time in the spotlight despite all that has happened, and how your life is one of creative cool.
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Ever the consummate professional, Graham Gouldman requires no introduction, the music he and the rest of 10cc created is understood from the first bar, and universally enjoyed; and once more the band of merry, and talented groove setters rolled into Liverpool as part of their Ultimate Ultimate Tour, and the result was one that was the sense of perfection, sweet, accomplished, complete and exact proof of the legendary status of the music, and of the longevity of spirit of those that created them.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Toyah has never lost her sense of fun and style, and her husband, the legendary Robert Fripp, exudes such an air of gentlemanly grace that to be in their presence can often feel measurably overwhelming.
For to watch two of Britain’s most experienced performers on stage can lead to the listener being comforted and dominated in the same breath; and when they are together on the back of their hugely successful Sunday Lunch show online that sartorial elegance on stage for a Liverpool crowd is one that is to be acknowledged as being performed by a king and queen of Prog and Punk.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Time is its own master, we are its servants, we are the victims and playthings in which the illusion of freedom is sought as a compromise, in which the future has its own set rules and inevitabilities, and the past is written either in dark forbidding ink or ruled with glory in hues worthy of memory.