Category Archives: Music

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Proven Ones, You Ain’t Done. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

No matter what you do, you cannot appeal to everyone at the same time, all the time…but you can certainly influence their thought by showing them that their range can be expanded, their love can be magnified; you might not be all things to all people but You Ain’t Done showing them that you have so much more to give.

Dan Whitehouse, Dreamland Tomorrow. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We chase our dreams with almost furious intent, sometimes to the detriment of the way we might find ourselves holding the future in hands made of clay, or being strangers, untrue to ourselves, our true selves and by the time we realise it, it is almost always, certainly over; the dream having become a millstone round our necks, for the tomorrow we sought became cluttered, full of the colour that meant nothing on the canvas we had.

Joe Satriani, Shapeshifting. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

We listen to music to be entertained and enthralled, more importantly we listen to learn about ourselves, to find ways to shed the skin we have and to inhabit a new belief, to force ourselves to transform from the basic uneducated version to one of the fully rounded human being, one who sees metamorphosis as a right and not as a hindrance.

The art of the Shapeshifting mortal is one lost to someone who refuses to see time as a teacher, they cling to the belief that it is the surroundings that alter their appearance, that the individual remains, implausibly, the same.

Chasing Infinity. Making Room. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It has been described as a decade of much change, a period in which we first started to forget about the social obligations that we had fought so hard to improve after the dark days that came in the form of fear and the possible knock at the door, a decade that came with the start of greed and unthought of middle class affluence driving the nation under the banner of wealth creation, it had many guises, many different faces, not all of it a measure for good.

Barry Briercliffe, Peculiar. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is nothing wrong with being peculiar, only in the eyes of the ordinary and the dull is the word used in such derogatory terms, it implies that to have a quirk that cannot be knocked back into the shape that society demands to feel that everything is normal, is to be concerned about, wary of, even scared of, because to the many peculiar means strange, whereas to the individual, to the distinctively eccentric, it is a special kind of uniqueness that should be protected at all costs.