Category Archives: Music

Carus Thompson, Shakespeare Avenue. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Reflecting on your family history is for many a journey that is not satisfied until you have walked the same path, undertaken the same trials and tribulations that was demanded upon of them. The route may appear different, time has a way of making even the greenest valley become littered with weeds and the tangle of roots ready to catch your determined feet, and yet we continue to amaze others, as well ourselves, by honouring the path to the point where the music we hear along the way becomes a theme tune to ours, and those who walked before us, life.

Carus Thompson, Shakespeare Avenue. Album Review. full post

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

Joe Bonamassa, A Conversation With Alice. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Such is the modern way of dealing with a problem that we immediately rush headlong into panic mode when we hear the word conversation or own flight or fight response ill-equipped to deal with someone’s alternate viewpoint, someone else’s demands on our time to which their words might demolish our own secure wall.

Joe Bonamassa, A Conversation With Alice. Single Review. full post

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

Rachael Dunn, Space Refugee. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is to how we are seen to deal with adversity that sets us apart from the perception others may have, and the surprise reality to which we hold ourselves to account; when the chips are down, when we feel as though there is nothing to do but hide in our shell till the worst is over, all that matters is that we can, or even appear to be able to, hold our head up high and say I am not cowed by the system, I am a Space Refugee with battles fought and won behind me.

Rachael Dunn, Space Refugee. Single Review. full post

(395 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Hegarty, There Must Be More To Life Than This. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is not until we lose our sense of self determination, our sense of objectivity and the gaining of certainty in troubled times that we understand that There Must Be More To Life Than This, the illusion we have allowed ourselves to walk into, blindfolded and with the promise of greater things, but without ever seeing those vague spoken promises come to anything but dust today and jam forever in the years to come.

Hegarty, There Must Be More To Life Than This. Single Review. full post

(336 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)

KingFast, Never Felt This Way Before. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Paul Walker just seems to instinctively understand how love, honour and the sense of the unrequited fit neatly into everyday life, but like the spirit that continues to break and lift hearts with a resonating touch of humanity that resides in Lionel Richie, so too does Paul Walker find the common touch that is so elusive as with matters of the heart, the compassion which is not sneered at, the beauty in the refined, delicate voice which both soothes and woos with equal discerning measure.

KingFast, Never Felt This Way Before. Single Review. full post

(350 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Eamonn McCormack, Storyteller. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The core of a good story is a truth that refuses to be passed over, ignored, or shunned by a society that sees only the value in what they can acquire and not what they can achieve.

A Storyteller worth their salt understands that, and by which ever means they convey their message of hope, reason or cautioning response to an existential threat, the way they show the world their truth is not just to be played out by the listener or watcher in the wings, it is to be retold, narrated, perhaps built upon, enlarged and given that extra depth to which the narrator and bard, the visual interpreter can seize upon and smile.

Eamonn McCormack, Storyteller. Album Review. full post

(398 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Gareth Heesom, Hold You In My Dreams. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Depending on your age and just how much the weekly music chart meant to you in your formative years, there will always come along a song that hits you that you know instinctively would have achieved the coveted number one spot with ease. No matter the genre, it only required the right voice, the symbolism of its tune and the belief to see it soar to the very top.

Gareth Heesom, Hold You In My Dreams. Single Review. full post

(344 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

Elizabeth & Jameson, Northern Shores & Stories. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

All points North in the end, and whilst the South has its own history, its own particular take on the songs that have driven the British soul, it is arguably to the Northern Shores & Stories that more than often find a way to describe a range of people to whom have been at times neglected by those to whom call the other half of the land, theirs.

Elizabeth & Jameson, Northern Shores & Stories. Album Review. full post

(440 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Ultan Conlon, There’s A Waltz. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Some of the best moments take only a minute to appreciate just how much has gone into them, how strong the sense of dedication and thought shapes the end result. For some the seemingly short pulse is actually the continuous, the never-ending dance set to the sound of the classic that everybody recognises but to which the steps often allude until they suddenly became clear, when they recognise the beauty in the breeze of music.

Ultan Conlon, There’s A Waltz. Album Review. full post

(402 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Adam Amos And Noel Rocks, Back Up To Zero. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

All good things will eventually find their way back home, they will once more join forces and defeat a common foe, the divide breached and the songs of glory, honour, melancholic splendour all being heard through the villages and to the point where the bell call out… such a statement could be reserved for the stories of Middle Earth, for the minds of those who see the world through stories that strike home the importance of continuous conversation and the ability to relay a story that honours all.

Adam Amos And Noel Rocks, Back Up To Zero. Album Review. full post

(386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)