Category Archives: Music

Rob Clarke And The Wooltones, Big Night Out. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The added bonus extra is sometimes a piece of information that really doesn’t do or give additional benefit to the enjoyment of the main piece under consideration, it would be like seeing the treasured Benjamin West painting, The Death of Nelson, in all its glory at The Walker Art Gallery and saying, well I enjoyed the painting but for added emotional pleasure it would be better if the blood was more realistic and the sound of battle could be heard in the background; some things do not need the extra added bonus.

Rob Clarke And The Wooltones, Big Night Out. Album Review. full post

(457 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Rat Scabies, P.H.D. (Prison, Hospital, Debt). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We are teetering on the edge of an abyss, it may look the same as the other ones we have collectively come across, the sign posts look awfully familiar, the paint on the boards pointing away from the cliff, freshly touched up and given a bit more dynamic gloss, and the lemmings hurling themselves off the cliff is a mighty big clue that we have been this way before. However, the scenario is different now, so much more to lose, a bigger threat consumes us and having P.H.D. (Prison, Hospital, Debt) is arguably the only defence we have.

Rat Scabies, P.H.D. (Prison, Hospital, Debt). Album Review. full post

(401 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Glymjack, Light The Evening Fire. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Despite being of a different era and genre, it has probably been said best by the erstwhile Heavy Metal band Megadeth on their Rust In Peace album, “A country that’s divided, surely will not stand.” It may be seen as pushing the boat out into the storm driven seas even further, of furthering the debate of what exactly Britain, more importantly England, stands for in the modern era, this once Sceptred Isle, a fortress in a sea of troubles, now, as the Bard noted in John of Gaunt’s death bed speech, has “..made a shameful conquest of itself.”

Glymjack, Light The Evening Fire. Album Review. full post

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

The Ego Ritual, Chakra. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You cannot help but adore the strut, one of humble pleasure, but still a song and belief born of assuredness, of the Lincolnshire parade to which has been part and parcel of the last decade and which has meant that across from The Pop Dogs to The B-Leaguers to this new single, Chakra, from The Ego Ritual, proves that there is an enormous amount of energy coming out of that east coast county, one driven with absolute conviction by Jim Styring, William James Ward and Gaz Wilde.

The Ego Ritual, Chakra. Single Review. full post

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

The Voodoo Sheiks, Unstoppable. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

From the first spark of the Big Bang through to the inevitable decline of the Universe, some entities in this crazy world just have the aura of absolutely being Unstoppable, that their momentum carries them across the threshold of every door possible, each one may as well be kept ajar, open wide and off the lock, for the relentless and seemingly inexhaustible have a point to prove, that they understand to stem creativity is to kill the dream.

The Voodoo Sheiks, Unstoppable. Album Review. full post

(419 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Kashena Sampson, Wild Heart. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If you desire something enough, you will go to the end of the Earth to find it, you will sacrifice almost everything in the pursuit of that dream, you will shatter preconceptions and build walls around you to protect that dream, that vision. Uncomfortably and sadly, often those dreams fade, the relentless chase too strong, too lofty, too high off the ground to reach with both hands and the opinions of others too forceful to stand up to close and perhaps insidiously jealous scrutiny.

Kashena Sampson, Wild Heart. Album Review. full post

(423 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

The Who, Live At The Fillmore East 1968. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are always holy grails in which the music lover finds themselves hoping to one day hear, elevated from the possible and tantalising, once exotic but dubiously sourced bootleg, and for the fans of The Who, the night at the Fillmore East in the aftermath of one of the most horrendous acts of murder in American History, is one that has long been wanted and relished of all of the great British band’s captured performances.

The Who, Live At The Fillmore East 1968. Album Review. full post

(450 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Manic Street Preachers, Resistance Is Futile. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

You can’t argue with the music, the sentiment and the ability, you can however feel that an element of what went before is missing, consigned perhaps to not being part of the moment or the future, and when that happens it calls into question the reasons and objections you may have in your own mind to how a band or artist will continue on in that vein.

Manic Street Preachers, Resistance Is Futile. Album Review. full post

(410 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Ben Bostick, Hellfire. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Hell is upbeat and the Devil plays a mean tune for the masses, whether you are in the gallery or in the seventh circle enjoying the restricted view but foaming at the mouth at all the associated demons that tend to your every whim and sell you over-priced memories, then Hell is the place where the saxophone plays dirty and the Blues wink happily at the thought of your captured soul.

Ben Bostick, Hellfire. Album Review. full post

(502 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Dana Fuchs, Love Lives On. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A new beginning is not always enough to see the scars disappear from view, however, it makes them easier to bear, the load seemingly shared between the consciousness and the heart, the memories fade, they become hopefully less aggressive, they lose their bite and the snarl dies down to a whimper, but in the soul, the fury gains momentum, that new beginning is purely the symphony ready to build up the tension, to strike up the band and let the haze clear; it is all that is needed to show that Love Lives On.

Dana Fuchs, Love Lives On. Album Review. full post

(394 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)