Category Archives: Music

Billy Liar, All I’ve Got. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The end of the year is always a time to look backwards, albeit briefly, and to start making those resolutions that you will carry forward into the following year. To bring new habits into your life, to get rid of old temptations and to find new and better ways to in which to use your time…one excellent way it seems would be to purchase an E.P. by Billy Liar and revel in the sheer majesty afforded to just one man. You couldn’t get 2014 off to a better start that immersing yourself for a little while in the music that kicks the old year where it hurts, the marvellous All I’ve Got.

Billy Liar, All I’ve Got. E.P. Review. full post

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

Forthaven, Histrionic. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Some things are just worth waiting for, even if it takes four years in which to create it for all to hear. Such is the pleasure of listening to Forthaven’s Histrionic, the indomitable Jay Roberts and a host of contributing artists that four years seems not to matter at all. Never mind the time, what matters is the end result and from start to finish this collection of songs is something to be proud of.

Forthaven, Histrionic. Album Review. full post

(360 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Silent Sleep, Walk Me To The Sea. Album Review,

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are times when you don’t need to shout too hard about what you have found, the object, the piece of music or hitherto unseen action will always find a way to make itself known and inspire those who take the time to get to understand it and sit in quiet contemplation as each word, each syllable and note floats over them and through them.  Like the sea making its presence known through each grain of sand, the infiltration is slow, meticulous and all powerful.

Silent Sleep, Walk Me To The Sea. Album Review, full post

(376 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

No Sinner, Boo Hoo Hoo. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Every so often you might fall in love with a voice, not just a voice but an attitude that makes the worst storm at sea, tempest driving, fear inducing, awe inspiring, feel like a grain of sand casually flicked into the remains of a puddle slowly being eaten by the hot summer sun.

No Sinner, Boo Hoo Hoo. Album Review. full post

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

Dave Clemo, Hard Times. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The diary of a person who has lived an interesting life is always so much more fun and enlightening to read but without having the nose to root through someone else’s life, be they alive or having left this mortal coil for enough time to make a journal bearable reading, the next best thing is to listen to an album by someone who has a tale to impart.

Dave Clemo, Hard Times. Album Review. full post

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

Black Neon Knights, Dawn Of The Knight. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

It starts with a hint of menace, gathers pace and ends up being a set of four songs that have the destructive power of a cyclone in mid-flow; the early days of Iron Maiden at the Ruskin Arms are not lost upon the listener as they take in Liverpool’s Black Neon Knights.

Black Neon Knights, Dawn Of The Knight. E.P. Review. full post

(466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Voices Of Angels, Songs For Christmas. Various Artists. Album Review.

For the second time this year, many people across Liverpool and beyond have thrown their weight behind something extraordinary in aid of the chosen charities for the Lord Mayor of Liverpool’s 2013-14 charity fundraiser.

Following on from the magnificent The Battle of The Atlantic C.D., the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Mr. Gary Millar, and a vast array of musicians and producers have bought out a Christmas album, which not only tugs at the heart strings wonderfully but also reproduces a real meaning of the season, not one of vast nameless companies making unfathomable profit in which to allegedly put into off shore accounts, but one of hope and feeling for everyone we come across.

Voices Of Angels, Songs For Christmas. Various Artists. Album Review. full post

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

Jimmy And The Revolvers, Sunday Morning. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To anyone had the misfortune not have been around when the sound of music from Liverpool dominated the charts and audiences every couldn’t get enough of the Merseybeat, the constant niggle of not seeing some of the legendary bands and musicians perform live, to having that tingle of excitement when the fledgling radio stations dare play a song by the ever increasingly popular music is something that you have to push down deep into the pit of your stomach and walk away before the evil and destructive nature of jealousy becomes too over whelming.

Jimmy And The Revolvers, Sunday Morning. E.P. Review. full post

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

Iain Till, Oh, Sweetheart Of Mine. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is always a time to de-clutter, to take away the excess, the pomp and circumstance and just go back to a stripped back version of everything, to listen to a set of songs that just play along with the idea of simplicity and high value.

Iain Till, Oh, Sweetheart Of Mine. E.P. Review. full post

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

They’re Coming To Get You Barbara, Dead Reckoning. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is nothing better than being on board a powerful juggernaut or expensively made motorbike which is haring along the American interstate, the speed getting faster as each mile zips by till finally the only way to come to a grinding halt is to make sure you put everything into the brake, the deep gauging and burning impression left by the tires in the asphalt an indication of just how great the ride was. Listening to Liverpool’s They’re Coming To Get You Barbara’s set of new songs from the E.P. Dead Reckoning is like being on that motorbike but somehow much more enjoyable.

They’re Coming To Get You Barbara, Dead Reckoning. E.P. Review. full post

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