Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The Next Ones, the sound of the ominous demand from the waiting room, or the request of the highly regarded duo Paul and Steve Herron as they unleash four new songs on the public with the song of sincerity, passion and belief all leaving their trademark appeal to enjoy.
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The genre of Metal just keeps giving, it may have found places in which its heavy, breathless, scything down of others around it could not penetrate but still it roams wonderfully unrepentant, alive, cynical but also punctual, the living endorsement of the relationship that goes hand in hand with the kind of beauty that those who choose to dance with are always welcome to enjoy.
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The past may be a foreign country, but that does not mean you shouldn’t visit it every now and then to re-evaluate the effect it has had on your present day mood or appreciations; if we left everything only to the ears of audio archaeologists then all our discoveries, all our loves, and sometimes aversions, are only to be interpreted by the sales and the critics words at the time.
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When we remove ourselves from the position of strength and security, we learn a valuable lesson about being vulnerable in later life. We may have succeeded in taming the land around us once, we may have fought like tigers to gain the respect of others and be seen as a beacon of independent thought and muster but open the door to a new outlook and we become the nervous creatures that once drew arms against the frustration of others not taking our words seriously, we become new in the face of experience that History repeats itself for a reason.
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We are not expected to make sense of this life, it is for the most part a seemingly random course of events that seems to leave us confused, often perplexed, and finding us with a series of concerns that makes us question what exactly is our role in our own existence. From the loneliest boy in the world to the Happiest Girl In The Universe, no matter who we are, we are fortunate if we find the meaning to life through self examination and reflection.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Easter Is Cancelled, but the sweet delivery of the unexpected gift stays true in the heart at any time of the year.
There is always a surprise which comes from a band that you may well believe you know well but which at some time or another pull the exceptional out of the bag and give the audience the belief that they have heard the defining moment of the group’s career. Such a moment should not be unexpected, but it should be treated with reverence, with the kind of respect deserving one who has sensationally delivered above and beyond a piece of art which smiles.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Today’s young music lovers, consumers and downloaders are besieged on all fronts by the restless chimes of beauty, the full package of what was just called the heartthrob and the sex symbol has now become a plethora of social media instant likes and little else; for some it could be argued that this current day situation of thumbs up and poses is a measure of style over substance, the scales weighted down in favour of the look of Bronze instead of the reality of polished Gold.
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A lit candle might not have the same impact on the heart of the shadows as a star but in the spark of intimacy it provides, the silhouettes seem to take on a deeper, romantic shade which captures the eye’s intensity. To be held though by the light of a star is to enjoy the celestial, the eternal, and whilst a candle speaks of privacy, of warmth between the playful and the coveted, to be invited by the words, Meet Me On The Far side Of A Star speaks into the forever and open expanse of universal understanding.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The Blues of Desperation never sounded so sweet as when played by a consummate master of the genre.
Much has been written over the last two decades about the New York born musician, so many gracious words, superlatives, sentences of content, that it could be reasoned by some that there might not be anything else that could be mentioned when it comes to the live performance of Joe Bonamassa. How little the words may be, but how powerful the music remains and as arguably the finest Blues guitarist to have strode the 21st Century so far proves in his first release of 2019, Live At The Sydney Opera House, that all the words in the world can never do justice, never truly capture, the work of one whose music is beyond reproach.
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We strive for happiness, but we settle for contentment, even constant gratification, never realising that amongst it all, the rubble of the life we may have lived, or the punishment of our own self-denial, we can find happiness by capturing lightning in a jar, one self-made, one that holds the key to the simplest of smiles.