Category Archives: Live

Kate Nash, Gig Review. East Village Arts Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

As Kate Nash motored her way through a rather superb set at the newly opened East Village Arts Club, there was surely nobody in the excitable audience that couldn’t see how much the artist had grown as a performer and as a woman. The evidence was there for all to hear with the release of her third album, the exceptional Girl Talk, and yet somehow if that demonstration of womanhood was somehow and unlikely missed by the listener, anyone making their way to the plush new surrounds that house the East Village would have seen the corroboration with their own eyes.

Kate Nash, Gig Review. East Village Arts Club, Liverpool. full post

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

The Kill Van Kulls, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Kill Van Kulls was amongst the extreme highlights of Liverpool Sound City during 2012. The positivity they showed, the intense joy they bought to the stage was matched stride for stride by their ability and infectious music.

The Kill Van Kulls, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

(366 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

The Fratellis, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The sweat had barely time to dry off in the 02 Academy from the previous night’s storming gig by Big Country than the re-emergence of one of the most popular and endearing bands of the last decade, The Fratellis, stoked up the pressure cooker inside the venue and the keen excitement felt by all spilled over and added further to the party atmosphere.

The Fratellis, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

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

Big Country, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Some journeys are never meant to end; there is always time for a new chapter, even in the most long and incredible of stories there is always time for one more nugget of information to be told and savoured. Within the circles of rock, Big Country’s story could have ended when much respected former vocalist Stuart Adamson sadly passed on as the new century began. No one would have blamed anybody as Stuart was a colossus, a man whose presence can still be keenly felt by many as they listen to his voice through the back catalogue.

Big Country, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

(567 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

Joe Brown, Gig Review. Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The broad smile at the end of the night said it all, Joe Brown, one of the true great British music legends, had enjoyed his time back on stage in Liverpool and judging by the response and adoration that came his way, it’s fair to say that the audience enjoyed the respected musician’s couple of hours just as much as he did.

Joe Brown, Gig Review. Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. full post

(521 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

The Cornmarket Acoustic Club in Liverpool Continues To Enthral And Entertain.

During the day, the streets that surround and hem in the business quarter into a hive of monetary activity, is awash with people going about their trades in the hope that the next big thing will come along and kick start a beleaguered and flat-lining economy. So many companies going bust and making more and more people unemployed and yet the pain goes on and the money continues to be looked for. Liverpool is better placed than many cities and towns in the U.K., for one the streets of the city also carry the hopes of the artistes, musicians and actors, painters, prophets and poets in a way that is unrivalled by any other city.

The Cornmarket Acoustic Club in Liverpool Continues To Enthral And Entertain. full post

(584 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Dennis Locorriere, Gig Review. Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Over the last few years the main stage of the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall has hosted many impressive evenings with musicians who have come from and wide and been part of many different genres. For every single one of them, whether Richard Marx, Roger Hodgson, Robert Cray, Brain May and Kerry Ellis it has been a matter of joy and pride to give the Liverpool audiences something to go home, sit down with a drink and exclaim, ‘Wow, wasn’t that ace!’

Dennis Locorriere, Gig Review. Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. full post

(462 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

The Union, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Even if you knew the fact, to hear Pete Shoulder say with more than a hint of apology in his voice that it was The Union’s first foray into the Liverpool’s music conscious was still more than a little surprising. With two members of arguably one of the great British Rock bands of the last 30 years, the soul affirming and musically forceful Thunder, in The Union, it seems almost remiss that the o2 Academy or any of the other vibrant venues in the city have not had the honour of hosting this exciting group.

The Union, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

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

BlackWolf, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Very few groups with the musical background of BlackWolf get the type of reception that this quality band received at their support slot to The Union at the o2 Academy. Liverpool rarely does the harder, more extreme side to rock, it is an area that usually gets left down the other end of the M6 Motorway in Birmingham and Wolverhampton or jets past and finds itself up in Scotland. So when the members of BlackWolf came on stage, it was with a gladdened heart that the crowd, still suffering with the cold that the Spring day had bought to them, took as readily as they did to the five piece and their blistering, head banging set.

BlackWolf, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

The Crucified Twins, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

There was an extra bonus for the fans that took a chance on turning up early for The Union’s debut gig in Liverpool on a very cold spring day and as bonus’ go they don’t come much better than The Wirral band The Crucified Twins.

The Crucified Twins, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

(360 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)