Originally published by L.S. Media. March 25th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating *****
If you want an album that will really get the toes tapping in time to the beat of a heart that is being governed by the sound of excellent music then in all honesty you really couldn’t go far wrong that to purchase and revel in Hot Wire, the new album by Hue and Cry.
Originally published by L.S. Media. Augsut 14th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating *****
There are just some musicians who shouldn’t be allowed, by act of law if need be, to be away from the public eye for too long. Scotland’s Karine Polwart is one such singer songwriter whose absence makes the world a darker place to inhabit, even though her songs are crammed full of enough of subjects that though nefarious and sad are what give life meaning, no matter how sorrowful.
Originally published by L.S. Media. August 15th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating ****
He was once a teen idol, a musical genius who strode the pop charts like a colossus and who quite rightly scored hit after hit in the video ridden 1980’s.
In 1984 Nik Kershaw released his debut album Human Racing, now just under 30 years later, Nick finally releases his eighth album and as with a lot of things, time has been kind and improved the music that the man creates. In Ei8ht, Nik Kershaw becomes the musician he was destined to be.
Originally published by L.S. Media. March 25th 2012
This week saw the 30th anniversary of one the seminal albums of what became known as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal era. Iron Maiden’s The Number of The Beastnot only stands out as one of the best by the definitive Metal bands from Great Britain but also one of the best of the whole Heavy Metal genre.
Originally published by L.S. Media. March 26th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating *****
It always comes as a bit of a surprise that musicians have any spare time to be anywhere outside of their own bubble. The group ethic of a band that has been around for years must surely take most of the hours of daylight afforded them and quite a few of the night hours too when they take in the multitude of gigs that they do.
Originally published by L.S. Media. March 26th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating *****
If there is such a thing as a marriage made in Heaven, then the day John Mitchell and Lee Pomeroy joined It Bites must surely be the closest moment for fans of Progressive Rock.
Map of the Past is only the second album that John Mitchell, John Beck, Bob Dalton and Lee Pomeroy have worked together on under the name of It Bites, however like 2008’s The Tall Ships, Map of the Past is an album that may have been long in its delivery but the result is so well worth the wait.
Originally published by L.S. Media. Mar
ch 27th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating **
All American Rejects’ new offering Kids in the Street is an album that honestly could have delivered so much more. However, it comes across as collection of songs that sound half-finished and that the care and attention that had been in evidence on the previous two albums has evaporated and dissipated as the band delved further into the recording.
Originally published by L.S. Media. March 29th 2012.
There is nothing at all as artistically satisfying as catching a band at their absolute best, perhaps seeing your team finally win a cup comes close but it still doesn’t compare to witnessing at first hand a group or even a solo singer nail every song they have gone on stage to perform as perfectly as they can and then some.
Originally published by L.S. Media. April 5th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating *****
There will be those that tell you that the concept album died a painless death during the 1970’s, there will further still those that maintain there was a brief hurrah in the mid 1980’s, and without wishing to compound the issue, there will be the modern audience’s assertion that the 21st century has seen the genre stay vital, drawing breath and propagating and influencing others from Green Day and My Chemical Romance.
Originally published by L.S. Media. April 8th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating *****
You only have to listen to the first track on The Very Best of Ian Prowse to know that not only is this an album of distinction and that if you cut him open, from every open pore and scratched surface would run the Mersey River, the biggest and most truthful aspect of the album is that it is Liverpool.