Category Archives: Live

Muse, Gig Review. The Hydro, Glasgow.

Muse in Glasgow, April 2016. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You cannot fault the effort that Muse put into their show, the production values are simply out of this world, the sound magnificent and the extras that make it always worth attending one of their performances just something to behold with slight awe. What can let it down as you watch the whole evening unfold is when the audience don’t seem to want to join in the fun and the absolute pleasure until very late in the day; the odd mosh pit opening aside, until the old storming favourite of Time Is Running Out presented itself to the crowd, there was hardly a peep of mass voice joining in.

Muse, Gig Review. The Hydro, Glasgow. full post

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

Jeff Lynne’s E.L.O., Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It might have been shock, it was more than likely reverential, but the early applause for some of rather ear catching songs played by Jeff Lynne’s E.L.O. was certainly building up to the cascade, the utter crescendo of wall to wall sound that would eventually come pouring down upon the Echo Arena, would be one that would have justified completely the decision by the much loved man from Birmingham to bring back his version of E.L.O. to the arenas and venues of the country.

Jeff Lynne’s E.L.O., Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. full post

(513 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

The Feeling, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Opening up for legends might be the finest double edged sword possible, not so much a weapon of Damocles, the weight of the movement swaying precariously and with a semi inclination towards amusement, but one that comes out of the lake held aloft by a woman with excellent lung capacity and with all the drama of Camelot at her disposal; The Feeling may not have been anointed Kings of Pop in Liverpool for the night but they did a damn marvellous job of opening for the regal elect inside the Echo Arena.

The Feeling, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. full post

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