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To be nervous is to expected, it is the little butterflies that growl hungrily and gnaw at you which define those that can do what they do in front of audience and those that can’t. In the raw, unrestrained and beautiful sounding Sophie Dodd it is something she may carry but she succeeds in taming them as if they were rampaging lions reduced to mewing helpless kittens.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are some people that just can hold an audience’s appreciation of their craft so well that it is a privilege to watch their response to their heroes on stage. Even keeping yourself at a respectful distance so that you can take in the message of the evening, watch both the reaction of performer and crowd, somehow observing one of the greats of rock Brian May and the sensational singer Kerry Ellis draws in the most impassive of spectators.
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The Sugarmen have built up a steady reputation, one that a sweaty, sultry night in Liverpool’s The Cavern Club can only further enhance. Presented by Radio Merseyside’s legendary local music champion Dave Monks, The Sugermen gave a blistering account of themselves on what can only be described a scintillating night.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
No matter the festival, no matter the venue or size, there is a certain kudos and accepted pressure that goes alongside the honour and even though Liverpool Calling was just a day out for some, the chance to sit in the relaxing atmosphere of one of Liverpool’s memorials to the fallen of the Second World War, the iconic St. Luke’s Church, and take in the music on offer from the abundance of bands, for Obstacles the moment was precious and demanding. It was a demand they rose to.
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Like The Shadow Theatre, Orange Room remain a secret held close to the chest of their adopted city and whilst the band may hail from the other side of the world, their roots are now firmly fixed in Liverpool. They have bided their time, made all the right moves and honed their set and for those that were fortunate enough to be in the confines of St. Luke’s Church during the afternoon session of Liverpool Calling they were treated to a fine performance that will live long in the memory.
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There is something about the majesty; the feel of the past and what the Bombed Out Church of St. Luke’s stands for that just makes it a great place to watch live outdoor music. The gothic look, the refusal of a city to bend its knee towards oppressors, doubters and the shameful is all around the city and the life blood in its people. No more so than Ian Prowse and Amsterdam and as the band come on stage as part of Liverpool Calling, the sound, the joy and defiance from the audience gets notably louder. If ever there was a man who can get a crowd thumping the air whilst placing one hand over their chest in remembrance of the fallen then Ian Prowse is the man and Amsterdam are quite rightly the band of the day.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
As The Mono L.Ps came on stage, the light changed over the Bombed Out church of St. Luke’s as if the changing of the guard was on hand and a brighter herald was needed to hail the excellence of this respected Liverpool band.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
One thing audiences inside the Bombed Out Church of St. Lukes may not have been expecting as part of Liverpool Calling was for a band to travel from Scotland, to take the long route march south, and perform for half an hour and then make their way back the same day north of the border. It certainly showed commitment and the music that Vasa provided in that short time on stage was not just scintillating but pretty awesome as well.
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You can’t keep a musical secret for long in Liverpool. Eventually somebody somewhere will pipe up and say that this band are just amazing, fantastic, unreal or sometimes but thankfully rarely don’t bother they haven’t got a clue. It is the very nature of the city that its long antennae, its fingers ever ready to feel for a new pulse to keep the lifeblood of Liverpool fresh and exciting will come across an act that has been squirreling in a basement venue and thrust them out into the open for its citizens to marvel over.
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It only takes a second for the iconic theme tune to get underway before you realise just how much music from the James Bond series of films means to the collective conscious of the enormous crowd at the Philharmonic Hall and the wider world.
Whether you watch the films in the privacy of your own home or in amongst the massed thrall at your local cinema, one of the key ingredients that makes the film such a blistering event is the score, the musical prelude that heightens up the tension and gives the audience the prickly sensation of what is in store for M.I.5’s greatest ever spy.