Category Archives: Live

Cal Ruddy, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool. (2017).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If Science Fiction teaches us anything, it is that Time is but an illusion, a structure devised to keep order, to make sense of the day to day and the minutes that come and go as easily as lightning captured on a camera. Time though is about what is in between, the second hand giving way to the power of the one that speeds by rapidly, not for some the elongated minute or hour, but instead the infinite; for it does not take a day or an hour to fall in love, but the second, fleeting, invisible and beautiful.

Cal Ruddy, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool. (2017). full post

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

Girls With No Faces, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Girls With No Faces at Studio2, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Obstacles are no permanent barrier, they only require the smile of the determined to shine before too long, like walls of made of clay and governments fashioned in panic, before they fall to the inevitable bull dozer being driven at full speed and aiming right for the weakest spot.

Girls With No Faces, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool. full post

(485 words, 1 image, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

The Change, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Change at Studio 2, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

The Change is coming, it just requires belief to see it through and whilst at times it feels as though you have to wade and poke at the sandy dregs of ignominy to find it, once it is there in your face, there is no hiding from the feeling and the option is to embrace it with everything you have.

The Change, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool. full post

(396 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Villy Raze, Gig Review. 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Whichever city you go to, whichever small town you might find yourself in overnight or which village you could be transported to, there will always be a group of people ready to defend the Punk lifestyle, the ethic and the music, it is a right that anybody with good sense will do; even forty years after the emergence and apparent overnight death knell, the sound of the genre, crossed over, played around with and seeping into other varieties, never truly dies.

Villy Raze, Gig Review. 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool. full post

(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Peter Dee Band, Gig Review. Party In The Park, Bootle.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There must always be a part of the day dedicated, if possible, to what has already been, the nod, the sincere salute to the past, for in any generation respect is due across the board, not just to the young groups taking a chance, but to those to whom have been perhaps lost to Time, the singles, the songs that made up such a vast and beautiful array of our music conscience.

Peter Dee Band, Gig Review. Party In The Park, Bootle. full post

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

Ladies, Gig Review. Party In The Park, Bootle.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The festival, when ran with respect for those willing to come through the gates, who will part with their money in return for a place to sit or stand safely and to whom the point of the exercise is to join in the idea of being part of something bigger, and accessible to all, is one of the great experiences of life; it doesn’t matter how grand, how small, if it makes a crowd happy, if it encourages them to get out more and see the world then it is of significance and important.

Ladies, Gig Review. Party In The Park, Bootle. full post

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

Phil Daltrey, Gig Review. Party In The Park, Bootle.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It can feel like you’re walking into the unknown, that the words created by the superb Phil Daltrey are so meaningful, so dipped in cool repose and measured by the weight of the city and its outlook towards the rest of the country, one in wishes that it would follow its lead in certain regards more than the village controlled by masked tradition on the Thames, that musicians such as Mr. Daltrey understand tradition, of community so much more than those in the House of Cards; community is all at the end of the day, it what binds us and the unknown can suddenly become a walk along a meadow, full, lush and plentiful.

Phil Daltrey, Gig Review. Party In The Park, Bootle. full post

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

Regina Spektor, Gig Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

A night of music, the sweaty gig in the enthusiastic pit, the concert in the grandest of halls, the lofty ideal and the well worked grunge, they are always more memorable for the occasional slip or cause of ripple in the audience and on stage with the band than for the polished, almost diluted down of humanity’s lack of humour, affair in which far too many serious types offer; just that small moment that makes it different, gives it personality and makes the conversation flow , of that moment when…

Regina Spektor, Gig Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(468 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Interrobang, Gig Review. Party In The Park, Bootle.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The Big Bang was witnessed by no soul, no creature of type was able to set it down and record it for posterity, all we are left with is the echoes, the background radiation as it seeps further into the distance, into the cold and unexplained black darkness that surrounds us and keeps us in our place as creatures with imagination but lacking in the power to explore beyond our grasp.

Interrobang, Gig Review. Party In The Park, Bootle. full post

(448 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Hegarty, Gig Review. The Party In The Park, Bootle.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It has been a productive time for Hegarty, a much loved band that quite rightly Liverpool has taken to its mighty Mersey heart, a new single which has had the group’s loyal fans and new comers aglow with anticipation in what is too come next and the return of their sublime drumming machine Waka Staffo after time out nursing himself back to full fitness.

Hegarty, Gig Review. The Party In The Park, Bootle. full post

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