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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
You have to admire the tenacity in which some bands make the most of their very obvious talent, the sheer force of will to get a set of songs together that will hopefully appeal to a wide enough range of fans to have made the whole exercise worthwhile.
For the five musicians that make up Decade, the process in putting together the album Good Luck feels as though they have kept their head above water long enough to make it at least something of tangible note and one that on odd occasions will be one of those that finds itself in the C.D. player and gratefully enjoyed before being neglected for a while unless bought by one of those wonderful fans that play such albums to death.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Life really should be made up of more joy than sadness. No matter the person, no matter their situation in life, to condemn a person to abject misery should be seen as sin that requires immediate redressing. However the lead up to the festive period can also bring a sparkle of hope into the world of beige and drab. Like walking through a snow filled forest on Christmas Day and believing that no other creature could surely be out embracing the cold chill that December invariably brings and then stumbling across a small bird chirping away with a song that is heard because no other being in creation dare interrupt it.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
With a heavy thump, the sound of a jaw can be heard through the noise of life, the backdrop to being alive in the 21st Century and all its relative shenanigans and utterances, that said jaw drops to the floor as the final track of the latest E.P. from the Ragamuffins, The Benefits of a Downhill Paper Round, clicks off and the stunned overwhelming desire to jump for joy at a very cool set of songs is only tempered by the time it takes to pick up the jaw from the floor.