Wombats Drummer Daniel Haggis Leads Line Up For Night Of ‘Alternative Folk’.

The Zanzibar Club has long been at the centre of Liverpool’s world-famous music scene, welcoming in newcomers and seasoned performers alike and connecting the city’s inhabitants with a shared love for music. Now, on April 4th, 2019 the iconic venue welcomes in friends of the city once more as Mellowtone host a night of ‘alternative folk’.

The line-up features Dan The Man, the solo project of The Wombats’ Drummer, Daniel Haggis, a rare solo acoustic set from Eugene McGuinness, and what is set to be another captivating performance from Anwar Ali and Dave Owen.

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(599 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)

Bottleneck, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre Studio, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Daniel Cassidy.

It is only in recent times that we have urged survivors to talk about the events they have witnessed, whether in terms of clarification so that disasters, tragedies and acts of systematic neglect in terms of  safety and the general public can be assessed and never, hopefully, happen again, or so that those same people who saw the catastrophe take place can ease their burden, have the weight and sense of guilt of history taken from their blameless shoulders, start the long journey back to hopeful recovery; never realising that the nightmares perhaps stay with them at each anniversary, each memory that went before analysed and examined, The Bottleneck of emotions that cannot be contained.

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(428 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Eddi Reader, Starlight. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The art of the short story is one that is often undervalued by a society that acts almost as if it is loitering with intent by the writer to hammer out more information from them, the questions rapid, almost unceasingly, there is no care to understand that the words on the page contain all they need to see the story through, no extras, no different alley in which to watch a character act in a different manner. All that is required is the act of attention for a short period, to register the difference between the reflection of the moon which bathes the world in nightly reassurance, and that of the Starlight that reminds us there is more out there to be persuaded by.

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(509 words, 1 image, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Blancmange Return To Liverpool For The Wanderlust Tour This May.

The first age of synth-pop was a shot in the arm that British music didn’t realise that it needed as the 60s utopian dream gave way to the pressurised vacuum and realistic demands that the 1970s pushed upon a beige and dispirited land. Punk and Disco had filled the void left by the power pop years and the muscle of the first wave of Progressive Rock, the new wave of Heavy Metal was still come and blow the minds of many, but the advent of bands such as The Human league, Depeche Mode, Heaven 17, ABC and Blancmange were ready to add a sense of new direction to the charts and the lives of those who were too young for Punk, too cool for Disco.

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

Rising Star Mia Molloy Announced As Dorothy In Wizard Of Oz At St. Helens Theatre Royal.

There are less than two weeks until the heroes of Regal Entertainment’s Easter panto, The Wizard of Oz, begin their magical journey down the yellow brick road.

The enchanting panto will take audiences over the rainbow at St. Helens Theatre Royal from Saturday 6th – Monday 22nd April.

Just announced! Beautiful rising star Mia Molloy steps into the famous ruby slippers as Dorothy. The multi-talented Liverpool local has been garnering excitement with her incredible vocals and presence on stage.

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

Kathryn Roberts And Sean Lakeman, Gig Review. Music Rooms, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The winter is behind us, from across the southern moor that acts a warning for what is likely to befall the unseasoned and weary traveller as they venture into England’s two remote counties of Devon and Cornwall, comes a sound of majesty, of the calling card of the Folk tradition and beauty that regales in tales lost and wars won; all with the testimony of the odd murder here and there which really lights up the room as the clocks steady themselves to bring nature and the wisdom of standing still together in a fashion of tranquillity.

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(446 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Betty Moon, Hellucination. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We have visions of where we want to be in live, the delusionary spell of wanting to live out our fantasy in places we can only at times ever dream of seeing, it is the same in how we wish the world to be, at one, harmonious, in keeping with nature and free from the phantasms that crow and screech in ill- tempered voices when all Hell breaks loose.

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(447 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

One Of The All Time Great British Rock Bands, Magnum, To Play Warrington’s Parr Hall This June.

Photograph used with kind permission by MP Promotions.

Their name is synonymous with excellence, both in the studio and on the road. Magnum’s approach to music has always been one that has been praised and highly valued by their fans and throughout their long and distinguished career, through every incarnation, the band have remained at the forefront of the passionate resonance that binds fan and Rock together. With the band’s current line-up of Tony Clarkin, Bob Catley, Al Barrow, Rick Benton and Lee Morris coming to Warrington’s Parr Hall on June 13th, the time is once again right to be in the company of one of Britain’s most enduring and musically gifted bands.

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(625 words, 1 image, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

Stereophonics Frontman, Kelly Jones, Announces A Night At The Liverpool Philharmonic As Part Of A U.K. Solo Tour.

Kelly Jones – Frontman and creative force of Stereophonics for over 22 years – will be heading out on a solo tour around the U.K. in June and July 2019 for only the third time in his career. The tour will include an evening at Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall on Thursday June 6th.

Heralded as one of the finest voices of his generation, Kelly Jones will give audiences a rare opportunity to see unique and intimate performances across an evening of storytelling and song craft.  Fans will be delighted to see and hear some of their favourite songs in a more stripped back environment.

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(252 words, estimated 1:00 mins reading time)

Yngwie Malmsteen, Blue Lightning. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To state the obvious is to be unsure of how you should react when confronted with the easily recognised, whether you should continue to rightfully applaud the artist for their consistency, or to step back and throw the social grenade of the unwelcome comment that there is no need for that particular illustrator of musical ambition and prowess to be standing in the cradle of another’s making.

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(513 words, 1 image, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)