Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman, John Hurt, Alex Kingston, Richard E. Grant, Neve McIntosh, Catrin Stewart, Dan Starkey, Eve de Leon, Kassius Carey Johnson, Nasi Voustsas, David Avery, Michael Jenn, Rab Affleck, Samuel Irvine, Sophie Downham, Paul Kasey.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Kathryn Beaumont, Joshua Hayes, Sally Hodgkiss, Adam Search.
From 18th century novels through to turn of the last century and the black and white kitchen sink dramas produced after the war and on to stereotyped and cliché ridden mass produced television, the idea of the north is one that can be hard to dispel, to make some of those that live in alleged splendour somewhere past the Watford Gap. Not all is grim up north and the harshness that is fostered upon the area is usually one that is made by those who are jealous of the rich tapestry of life that the northern half of England holds dear.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
As Norman Kelsey stands on the stage at The Cavern Club and takes in the audience’s reaction, it would be easy to forgive him if for the briefest of moments the broad smile he has had on his face all evening suddenly became as wide as the River Mersey. For Norman Kelsey, the man who made his way from the West Coast of America to perform in this year’s International Pop Overthrow, to say his set was stunning would be a huge understatement.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The International Pop Overthrow wouldn’t be the same without the presence of California’s Adam Marsland being spotted and enjoyed at some point during the eight days. On and off the stage the man is a colossus and always gives a consummate performance worthy of some of the greats from the United States.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Norway’s links with Liverpool are un-disguisable, even the favourite dish of the city, Scouse, originates from there and it is no wonder that all things Norwegian make their way to the city at some point or another. Some are taken to the people’s hearts straight away and some take getting used to.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
With over a 100 bands and groups making their way to Liverpool as part of the International Pop Overthrow, now its 11th year of coming to the city, you would expect some rather great acts to make their way to the forefront, gently guide you to some good tracks and times and leave you gasping hopefully for more. What you might not expect, especially in the city that gave pop music to the country if not Europe and beyond, was a for a group to make their way across from the sleepy city of Lincoln and give the type of performance that the bands that made Merseybeat would have said was the best way to thrill a crowd and then make that same audience wriggle with excitement at reliving those heady days.
Originally published by www.liverpool-live.co.uk on May 16th 2013.
Songsmith Ed Harcourt released his latest album Back Into The Woods earlier this year. Recorded in just 6 hours at Abbey Road Studios, the critically acclaimed work features a collection of beautifully stripped down tracks. In keeping with the romance and warmth of the album, he heads out on a tour of intimate churches and concert halls this summer and plays Liverpool’s Scandinavian Church on 7th June.
The venues on the new tour are quite distinctive and they seem to lend themselves to your music, for instance, Trinity Church in Leeds and the Scandinavian Church in Liverpool; was this a conscious decision to do play such places?
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
If Liverpool Sound City taught audiences across the area anything, aside to expect great music all day and every day, it was to expect the unexpected. The singular moment when a band comes up on stage that the audience has never heard of and near enough blows them away with their catchy music, their incredible enjoyable insanity and overall charm providing a great excuse to check out other group from the same country on the off chance you have missed something incredible. In the sublime Lee and the Lovedaddies there surely cannot be any better as this foursome from Belgium are off the scale.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Tazmin Merchant, Patrick Kennedy, James Fleet, Ryan Gage, John Bowe, Richard Bremmer, Amanda Fairbanks-Hynes, Emerald Fennell, Iain McKee, Siobhan Hayes, Susie Blake, John Heffernan, Patrick Knowles, Joey Batey.
Murder on the Home Front, the two-part television programme based on the memoirs of Molly Lefebure, may not have the stature of other crime/detective programmes that have become a staple of the diet, the fix of misdeed and felony that Britain seems to revel in watching but nonetheless it sparked and blossomed and in the end was enough to get the crime gastric juices flowing to make it quirky, watchable and in parts inspired.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Richard Patrick is back to his very best as Filter prepare to release their sixth album The Sun Comes Out Tonight. It seems an absolute age since Filter come out with all guns blazing, the music a weapon ready to be exploded onto the music buyer’s consciousness and turn their emotions inside out with the pulsating and riveting sound which is only matched by some of the great lyrics that was a hall mark, even if did court some controversy in songs such as Hey Man Nice Shot.