Category Archives: Music

Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Dirty Truth. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

For anybody who made their way to the Robin 2 about a decade ago, to catch sight of the talent that resided in Joanne Shaw Taylor must have been one of the biggest draws to ever come on stage in the small West Midland’s town of Bilston since The Robin 2 opened its doors. The Black Country and Birmingham soon grasped the importance of the outstanding woman who made the guitar sound like a spectre hunting down a soul to possess and whose charm and playing ability captivates all who come into contact with her.

Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Dirty Truth. Album Review. full post

(439 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Mr Big, …The Stories We Could Tell. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You can ask many things in life but asking the impossible is exactly that, something in which just you may as well lay down all your arguments and say, “Yes, just carry on and be magnificent, nobody will stop you telling your empowering and delicious tales.”

Mr Big, …The Stories We Could Tell. Album Review. full post

(479 words, 1 image, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Jonathan Markwood, Welcome To Planet Earth. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Sometimes you just have to sit back and listen to understand a person’s hopes, dreams, desires and fears. The casual conversation in a pub or coffee shop is fraught with dangers of misplaced cues, of half heard personal confessions and the fighting for the best story of the day, to get the true picture one needs look at the person in the face and listen. Whether it is in the form of spoken word or set to music, listening can get straight to the heart of the matter and perhaps makes for better reasoning.

Jonathan Markwood, Welcome To Planet Earth. Album Review. full post

(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Joe Bonamassa, Different Shades Of Blue. Album Review.

 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When Joe Bonamassa makes an entrance, the polite thing to do is to acknowledge the depth of arrival. However who wants polite when arguably the greatest and most prolific Blues guitarist of the last 40 years is in town, the only thing you should really do is applaud wildly and thank which ever deity you entrust your soul to, which ever spectrum of existence is closest to your overall reasoning, that there is a place in the universe for Joe Bonamassa.

Joe Bonamassa, Different Shades Of Blue. Album Review. full post

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

Keith Thompson Band, Catch The Fire. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Music is nothing without enthusiasm, the blaze of ongoing passion and the fervour of belief that what you are producing is something that will nestle at the heart of many a listener and grab their attention and excite them to a point where apathy is thrown to ravenous wolves and the deadly soulless.

Keith Thompson Band, Catch The Fire. Album Review. full post

(418 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Laura Benitez And The Heartache, Heartless Woman. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is almost nothing better than the discreet musical discussions of the feminist argument in which to get your point across of self- sufficiency and self- respect which leads to admiration and a particular type of esteem eluded those that rant and rave at the slightest thing and merest sleight. Not just a feminist argument but a reconciliation between self-value and veneration in other’s eyes that you can walk away from a situation that is doing you harm.

Laura Benitez And The Heartache, Heartless Woman. Album Review. full post

(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Counting Crows, Somewhere Under Wonderland. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The sound of a soft lament escapes from the mouthpiece of a trumpet, the stark image of a fallen comrade, friend or hero fills the room and the devastation of loss is something tangible; it grasps at the air and enthuses a type of faith, faith that despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, everything will turn out just fine.

Counting Crows, Somewhere Under Wonderland. Album Review. full post

(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Kerry Ellis, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It seems impossible these days to think of Kerry Ellis as anything but an established performer of great quality. A vocalist whose voice can send shivers the spine and whose work, especially in recent times with Queen’s Brian May, has been nothing but jaw-droppingly good. On the back of all that it is of no surprise that Kerry Ellis has returned once more to the world of theatre for an album of show tunes and highly thought of songs for her fourth album and strikingly eponymously titled

Kerry Ellis, Album Review. full post

(379 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Elijah James, Nobody Important. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There are moments that stick in the mind more clearly than others, the instant when you witness something so extraordinary, when you hear something so surprisingly exceptional that not only do the hairs on the back stand up on the back of the neck, they wave remarkably in the strong gust of future expectation and are strong enough to withstand the wear and tear of a flag being run up and down them for a dozen years.

Elijah James, Nobody Important. Album Review. full post

(426 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Niamh Jones, E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If the word division has been on people’s lips of late, it could be seen as understandable. Everywhere you care to look, no matter what side you feel you are either urged to take or come too of your own research and accord, division is everywhere. It is in every fabric of society and seems so deeply engrained that even if a nation or family votes in a majority in favour of something, the arguments it has caused are going to live long in the memory.

Niamh Jones, E.P. Review. full post

(493 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)