Beverley Craven Change Of Heart. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

No matter what, fans of Beverley Craven will always have the near perfect image; the sound of a beautiful and sensuous voice embraced so hard around their memories that not even a fairly average album could shake their belief in her. Which is good, for Beverly Craven is one of those artists that you want to love, that you want her to take you by the hand and lead you down many roads and personal alleyways in which have made her music so enticingly intimate and friendly down the years.

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(471 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Into The Dalek. Television Review, B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Nicholas Briggs, Zawe Ashton, Michael Smiley, Samuel Anderson, Laura Dos Santos, Ben Crompton, Bradley Ford, Michelle Morris, Nigel Betts, Ellis George, Barnaby Edwards.

For anyone who ever wondered what it would be like to be placed within the very heart of the most dangerous creature in existence, then the latest episode of Doctor Who, Into The Dalek almost provided the answer to that fantastic question. Until they find a way to see into the very soul of the Time Lord, seeing inside a Dalek who has discovered the point of existence beyond the blasted horizon by the Denisons of destruction encased in Dalekanium ranks almost as high.

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(498 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Paul Straws, Gig Review. Above The Beaten Track Festival: The Bluecoat, Liverpool.

Paul Straws at The Bluecoat, August 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If Jo Bywater’s set for Above the Beaten Track Festival inside the Bluecoat could be seen as a personal revolution then Paul Straws evening appearance should be seen as the start of pleasing and game changing mutiny.

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

Me And Deboe, Gig Review. Above The Beaten Track Festival: The Bluecoat, Liverpool.

ME And Deboe at The Bluecoat in Liverpool. August 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To dislike ME and Deboe is to have the same outlook as a block of stone being chipped away by the most inept and undedicated of Masons, for just to be in front of Mercy Elise and Sarah Deboe is to understand that music is the most perfect of pursuits.

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(568 words, 1 image, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

Jo Bywater, Gig Review. Above The Beaten Track Festival: The Bluecoat, Liverpool.

Jo Bywater at The Bluecoat, Liverpool. August 2014. Photograph by Mr. Graham Holland.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Revolution and even evolution can be triggered by adversity, the moment in which personal hardship or disaster upon a species or a country can be the catalyst in which change happens. Revolution is not something to be feared, unless you are the oppressor, if you are the one in which is placing your boot upon a human face, revolution is only wrong when the incorrect dogma takes a fall and evolution is as inevitable as empires crashing to dust eventually.

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(442 words, 1 image, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Only Child, Gig Review. Above The Beaten Track Festival: The Bluecoat, Liverpool.

John Gibbons, part of Only Child’s live set at The Bluecoat, Liverpool. August 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If ever there is a time in someone’s life in which you can say to someone, “Wow, I am impressed with the dedication to the cause”, then to come on stage and play magnificently just after the heart, brain and soul have been swamped with the overwhelming emotions of becoming a parent for the first time is probably that time.

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(402 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Niamh Jones, Gig Review. Above The Beaten Track Festival: The Bluecoat, Liverpool.

Niamh Jones, The Bluecoat, Liverpool. August 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Niamh Jones is a woman with such a sparkling voice that it is no wonder at the age of 15 she was given the opportunity to impress all who attend the highly respected nights hosted by the people at Liverpool Acoustic. Two years on, Niamh Jones is something special to behold, and inside The Bluecoat on an August day which betrayed the thought of blistering sunshine blasting its rays upon the multitude of people making their way to take in a day of music, Niamh Jones again showed the reason why she is thought of so well.

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(517 words, 1 image, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Danny Bryant, Temperature Rising. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There on occasions, admittedly as rare as finding that the speck of dust that you thought you had been seeing in the corner of the lens of a telescope is in actual fact a new star blazing away in the Universe, that an album will come along, announce itself with sincerity and then stomp over everything you knew. Not only will this action be like running at top speed into a stationary elephant but you will welcome it in to your life as if nothing else matters.

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(419 words, 1 image, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Jimmy And The Revolvers, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Judging by the reaction of the assembled audience inside Studio 2 on Parr Street, Jimmy and The Revolvers had perhaps just given the performance of their lives.

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(489 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Lyra, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Kieron Smith of Lyra at Studio 2, Liverpool. n Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You can tell that there is more than a spark of quality to a band when adversity, that age old Moriarty to the Sherlock creature that resides in youthful talent, just seems to be kicked into touch quicker than a footballer finding out there is a spread bet available on the time of the first throw-in.

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(407 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)