Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Take the mightiest roar from the express train that hurtles past you at 100 miles an hour at your local railway station and mix it with the romance and visual sense of a tropical thunderstorm in full force. That image is part the way to something that your jaw might just drop to as you take in the absolute power of nature and with that your some way to the effect that Michael Schenker and his latest album Bridge the Gap will leave you with.
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It is always heartening when you hear a band or artist bemoan the way that television and certain people making money from it has come to define music to a certain percentage of the population, so much so that you want to grab the musicians by the hand, shake it with vigour and a smile on your face and wish them all the luck in the world as they take on the televised corporation.
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There is a consensus amongst many that Christmas has become too dominated by the idea of want, of commercialism bathing in some sort heavenly glow answering all the problems of the world with just a little help from a couple of double A batteries. It could be argued that is why so many have turned away from whichever deity or religion they were bought up to observe and openly state so in the national census. The often repeated music that gets released and played ad infinitum over many high street shops plays a hand in the apathy that is felt, come spend your money on gifts people don’t particularly need whilst you grow ever more weary of hearing the soundtrack to the season, shop after shop.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The profusion of great music that has come out of Scandinavia this last year, especially from its Metal genres is almost an embarrassment of riches. It has been relentless, a Metal take over from the traditional homes of the field in which for the vast majority of groups from the U.K. and America, with some very obvious exceptions, have been left floundering in their wake.
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The easiest thing in the world is to dismiss somebody’s music just because they are singing or performing in a different language, it is something that at times and no matter whom you are that we are guilty of. So much easier to fall into the trap of playing a track that you are so comfortable with that every note and nuance has been heard a million times before. Occasionally a song, a group or even an album might cross over into the subconscious and gets mass approval; however it seems to be as rare as hen’s teeth unless you live in a country where the population are so adept at understanding more than their own mother tongue.
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Fun On Earth has been years in the making so many years in fact, that if it was a musician from almost any other band who had forged a respectable solo career, the fans might have drifted on and found a new hero to relish in. This though is Roger Taylor, a man who has been at the heart of British Rock for 40 years, a man who can turn up at Foo Fighters gig, a group not known for their shortage of drumming talent, and give a blistering display and who also arguably had the more prolonged success away from Queen than the three other members of the iconic group.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
There always seems to be debate on the links between Metal and the art of Progressive Rock. There are many bands that have perfected the lofty ideal that criss-crosses two outwardly disparate genres, the blurring and adding to of the ability to tell a story over the course of an album to the hard edge, the absolute limit of Metal technical adeptness.
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There is an indescribable pleasure to be derived from listening to a classic album for the first ever time. Such is the fate for anyone who ventures from their perceived comfort zone and takes in the re-mastered album by B.J. Cole, The New Hovering Dog.
First released over 40 years ago, it is an album that urges the listener to follow the proverbial yellow brick road and go on a journey that at times will open the imagination to its fullest achievable end and at others will have the younger listener, even the music lovers of the era, astounded by the complexity of the tracks on the C.D. and the incredible sound that B.J. Cole produces throughout.
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There is no such thing as an overnight success…not if they are worth anything of true value and not if they have come through everything the world can throw at them and still shrug their shoulders and smile with a glint in their eye and a mischievous song in their heart. For nearly 30 years that sense of beautiful mischief, the sense of wanting to impart some sort of musical heritage onto their fans has seen The Lennerockers celebrate the release of 14 albums and now their 15th studio recording, the superb Rustin’ and Rollin’, will surely have the fans clambering over each other to be taken in hand once again.
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Joanne Shaw Taylor simply has nothing to prove, with a simple guitar riff and sultry voice she shows why she’s not just the cream of the Midland’s Blues scene but also one of the finest exponents of the craft this side or any side of the Atlantic Ocean. From her previous scintillating album, Almost Always Never to her first live recording, Songs From The Road, and throughout her career she has made the very most of what she has to offer the wider music world and the outcome has always been nothing short of fantastic.