Category Archives: Music

The Beat Movement, The Warning. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It may be an old adage but the music that played a huge part in defining the latter half of the 1960s is a gift that keeps giving with size ten boots, smartly dressed in crisp suits and a movement that refuses to lie down and take it easy as it approaches middle age. The Mod age that was captured so sweetly and wonderfully by the distinct sound of groups The Who, The Smoke, The Kinks and The Small Faces continues to live, breathe fire and spread its wings over each generation that follows in its wake.

The Beat Movement, The Warning. E.P. Review. full post

(333 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

I Am A Man With A St. Tropez Tan, Just A Ghost. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

There can be no messing round when being avant-garde, it either works so well that it becomes a fashion all of its own or it leaves people so stumped that it can leave those taking part as the audience cold and bored. Thankfully boredom is not an option and not on the agenda when it comes to I Am Just A Man With A St. Tropez Tan.

I Am A Man With A St. Tropez Tan, Just A Ghost. Album Review. full post

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

Susan Hedges, City Song. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If Susan Hedges showed her teeth and bared her claws throughout the excellent Kiss My Attitude album then on the City Song E.P. the hurt she put out for all to hear is replaced by one of sensitivity, poetry for something, someone she loves and a joy of a place she is deeply proud to be part of.

Susan Hedges, City Song. E.P. Review. full post

(309 words, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)

Cavern Records Presents The Best In New Music, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In the 1980s a brand new way of presenting music as a package appeared, the then much loved Now That’s What I Call Music collection which featured artists and groups such as Phil Collins, Heaven 17, Malcolm McClaren, The Human League and Simple Minds made its first appearance 30 years ago. In that three decades music has moved on, young musicians have made their way onto the scene and nowhere it seems is that energy more keenly felt in the U.K. than in the home of music, Liverpool.

Cavern Records Presents The Best In New Music, Album Review. full post

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

Susan Hedges, Kiss My Attitude. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To meet Susan Hedges is to admire her. To listen to her remarkable voice on her album Kiss My Attitude is to understand that admiration is one thing, but to recognise and fully appreciate the driving force that pushes this extraordinary woman to make such great music, music that is tinged and immersed fully with depth and a burning anger.

Susan Hedges, Kiss My Attitude. Album Review. full post

(340 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

Jackpot Donnie, Mayday. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

For many in the U.K. the American city of Chicago either conjures up the idea of some of the television programmes or films that feature the tremendous beauty and sometimes grimy underworld that the city is built upon, the band for which wonderful rock ballads were seemingly entrusted to for the best part of two decades and with Peter Cetera at the helm made the band a global phenomenon or possibly even the thought of Renee Zellweger and Welsh actor Catherine-Zeta Jones vamping it up as two women on death-row in Cook County Jail in the sensational musical Chicago.

Jackpot Donnie, Mayday. E.P. Review. full post

(370 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Lee And The Lovedaddies. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is the yin and yang of music, the great trying to be better in either form. For some bands, trying to capture the sound the studio has afforded them, the well polished, buffered and clean finished article that may have had months in the making can never be truly captured in its live form. The animal is too different, there can be no retakes, no second, third or fourth different tries to get the note just right, it is do or die on the night.

Lee And The Lovedaddies. Album Review. full post

(306 words, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

The Doors, L.A. Woman. 40th Anniversary, Album review.

First published by L.S. Media on January 25th 2012.

I admit my musical relationship with The Doors is not what it could have been. I didn’t appreciate the American band at all. The reason for this rather glib demonstration of lack of musical compatibility is down to a girl I used to date who had the most overpowering and dedicated crush on Jim Morrison. No not a crush, she lived, breathed and dreamt of him, not a problem, that didn’t bother me. It was being called Jim that got me down about the band…for the record my name is not Jim!

The Doors, L.A. Woman. 40th Anniversary, Album review. full post

(1028 words, estimated 4:07 mins reading time)

Texas, The Conversation. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Texas have been away for an eternity, the self-imposed hiatus that the group have kept to religiously looked like never ending and since 2005’s release of The Red Book, it looked as if the hiatus was going to end up as a permanent closure. One of the finest Scottish acts would be no more. Never doubt though, always believe that as long as a band have the willing then at some point they will come back together and make a near masterpiece that Di Vinci, Constable or Pitman would have been proud to take ownership of. Where The Red Book faded away, The Conversation never looks as if it could be stopped being talked about.

Texas, The Conversation. Album Review. full post

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

Annie Soulshine, I Hate/Love My Brother. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Although released a couple of years ago by Annie Soulshine, the album I Hate/Love My Brother seems to be only just doing the rounds here in the U.K. Like some phantom that wafts in and out of sight, to appear when you are least expecting it, it seems word of mouth keeps the album, at least on these shores going. It is a shame as the acoustic style of the pair, Annie and Felix, is quite beautiful and yet with that little hint of burning desire, the moment of anger, that worms its way through each song as if there is unfinished business needed to be resolved.

Annie Soulshine, I Hate/Love My Brother. Album Review. full post

(330 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)