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It is a refreshing turn when a young group, a musician, any artist of serious note, can hand on their heart declare in the modern world that they are not in the profession for the clicks, the likes, the social media gratification, but that what they do is go out there and fill the room with so much electricity it could bring about an overload at the nearest substation and cause widespread disruption to the local area.
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We all have to live somewhere, but for some, Limbo is a place where we are slotted into because those who cannot see beyond their own ego and ambition are driven to push the living, the alive, and the creative into a realm where they have to fight for every breath, where the talented and gifted are often overlooked.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
To reach the safety of a home port you have to navigate the storm, the tempest that stalks us all when we take to the water and sail beyond the horizon for the first time; it is the search for ourselves that leads into the water, the chance to find the hero within, or at least the navigator for others to steer their own ships by, and as we sweat in the eye of the storm, as rain threatens to tear the skin from our soul, we offer A Drop For Neptune in return to home, we offer sacrifice to the god of the sea, and that sacrifice is a promise that we will always return to the water that surrounds us.
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We all have that favourite venue, it is only natural after all to enjoy spending time in one place, the large and expansive, the intimate, the lively, the back alley dive, the glittering recently opened where the vibe last longer than the free 1st round paid for beers, and should the quality of bands never diminish, should the introduction to a new sound forever catch you pleasingly unawares, then what is just four walls and a sound desk to some, will become like family to you; it is as if you are ready to pronounce allegiance to the venue by declaring You Are My Blood.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Never mind the Year Of The Cat, or indeed that of the pig or the dog either, for in The Year Of The Rat great changes are audibly recognised, and it comes with a sweeping fascination of what is to surely descend upon us.
Poetry and music are intrinsically linked, not only through the obvious reasoning of their artistic Venn Diagram in which stars such as Leonard Cohen and Jaques Brel are admired, revered to a point where they are cast as human gods of their craft, but through the ability to communicate thought in such a way that they raise the mind of the listener to a place where consciousness is a doorway to the stars.
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In a moment of time when human activity has seemingly stuttered, and been the cause of other species disappearing off the face off the planet in numbers that seem unimaginable, perhaps it is time that we admit that the way we have accepted political dogma and its paymasters has had devesting results on the planet, and on the way, we interact with it.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The music never wants to stop, and as part of the Lordiversity box set, why anyone would want the ideas to stem and falter, the feeling of theatre and back door music hall thespianism to halt at the point where the audience is now chomping at the bit in anticipation, and where the lady has not even arrived in a pre-booked horse and carriage at the stage door, let alone applied her make up and cleared her throat for the final curtain.
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There is always so much more to a life than what we perceive on the surface. So much of what we do gets lost in memory, remembered for detail by some, half discussed by those who see the past as more of an explanation of the present than a moment to forget, we are perhaps the keepers of our own memory; but it helps if others also can find a way to locate the missing jigsaw piece which makes the picture whole, the one that removes all doubt that once we were capable of Love, Glory, Honor & Heart.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Adored by the fans, respected absolutely by the wider community, and yet even when The Monster Roars, it seems that Magnum, the epitome of Midland Rock for half a century, still find they cannot receive the recognition from all. They are not alone in this, but with Magnum, for the listener and the fan alike, it rankles more because of all quality recordings they have made, through the seismic writing of Tony Clarkin and the sheer colossal style and vocals of Bob Catley, Magnum are arguably not just Birmingham’s greatest Rock Band, but they are themselves the monsters who roared.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
All the world’s a stage, and some truly understand what it takes to perform upon it…
The days of the rock arena, for some, are limited, the sense of testosterone excess is not in keeping with today’s cynical, even verging on the puritanical world where everything is catalogued by numbers, by the instant thumbs up, or the inevitable calls for cancellation because of the believed offense taken; and yet despite it all, the arena continues to fill, and those players, brightly displayed, the lights capturing the essence and well as the production, are there to thrill in every capacity possible.