Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The Big Bang was witnessed by no soul, no creature of type was able to set it down and record it for posterity, all we are left with is the echoes, the background radiation as it seeps further into the distance, into the cold and unexplained black darkness that surrounds us and keeps us in our place as creatures with imagination but lacking in the power to explore beyond our grasp.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It has been a productive time for Hegarty, a much loved band that quite rightly Liverpool has taken to its mighty Mersey heart, a new single which has had the group’s loyal fans and new comers aglow with anticipation in what is too come next and the return of their sublime drumming machine Waka Staffo after time out nursing himself back to full fitness.
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It feels at times that the artist can be confined in a bubble, that society does not expect them to be go beyond what they deem to be a fair place, an almost cell like and society driven conflict, “we wish to love you”, you can almost hear them cry, “but we don’t want to share you.” The artist is not a caged bird, to keep them in one place is to ignore their spirit, their heart and their ambition, and in David Neville King, there are few who can match his impressive heart and spirit.
Was the microphone too big for me,
it seemed to dwarf my
insignificant words, honest
yet of no consequence
to the world and its wife, only
Time, infinite wisdom that it provides,
would ever illuminate such a question
and give it a reasoned, considered answer;
conscious of the second hand moving, trivial
pursuit but in my heart
just another reason to love;
they have travelled a long way since
set down at school, the embarrassment
of being called names and sneered at by teachers,
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People often forget that sometimes a sound does not come together by accident, that sometimes it requires more than the heads down and study routine we regretfully install into our children, that the happy medium of play hard and work hard is just something to say when we wish to sound fully rounded human beings; what sometimes brings a sound together is the touch of personality, the moment when an audience watches you and they experience magnetism, a quality of character so life grabbing you cannot but be helped to be drawn to it.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
In another time Ste Neildsy would have been arguably suited to the role bestowed upon him of a Liverpool Johnny Cash spliced ingeniously with the musical gene of Jeff Lynne, such his stance, his gaze, his whole rock solid demeanour of spirit and perceptive and often more lyrical praise. Whilst there may be no gruffness, no dedicated man in black naturally pounding at the establishment door and gaining access to a world he cares little for; instead what you find with Neildsy is the creative back hander which thrills both the senses and puts a smile readily on the face.
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The very model of the unruffled and serenely played, summer days in the sunshine, gently wafting at a short sighted errant bee that might mistake your patterned shirt for a previously untapped exotic flower, your family beside you on the grass and the smells of the frying burger rampaging across the once regimented grass of the local bowling green. For days like this in Bootle, where for too long the stress of being ignored by Government has played on the mind of the local community, it could only be the appearance of the superb Alan Triggs that would weave such a spell of undisturbed composure in the air.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It always remains a constant surprise to see just how much a person can fit into their lives that they take the day on with such a broad grin and with a fist clenched ready to fight back just in case Time should get other ideas, such people, such souls can only be admired.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are certain people in this world to which respect is not just an idea mooted, it is given whole-heartedly and without hesitation. Whilst every person you bump into, rub along alongside or have the chance to listen to should be valued, for at least it takes the time for them to open their mouth and their opinions tumble out like a sack of sick cats all pus eyed and fleshed out fur, or in the case of The Huyton Minstrel, ringing velvet truth from a life of keen observation and seeing the misery heaped upon certain members of society in the chase for social injustice, respect is due to people and artists such as the man behind the minstrel stare; Carl Allan.
Remember how we panicked,
the last straw of a civilised society,
Orwellian, 1984, Big brother
is watching and taking notes;
remember that panic
as cameras zoomed in our conversations
and attacked our sense of moral outrage…
They should have waited a few years,
installed them now,
in the back of our heads, showreels
for the courts for out of our mouths
comes the awful truth,
we have become C.C.T.V. ourselves,
reporting every little thing that might
offend us, regardless of its merit,