Tag Archives: Alexandra Jayne

Alexandra Jayne, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Festival 2015. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Alexandra Jayne at the Unity Theatre in March 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Alexandra Jayne at the Unity Theatre in March 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The celestial heavens opened above the U.K. and the thought of the majesty and awe of space was offered to all below, the dance between Sun and the Moon a peek at what made our ancestors shudder with fascination and perhaps fear but in the skies above a 21st Century Earth. As eclipses go, certainly over Liverpool, it wasn’t the most auspicious of moments, but that did not stop one star shining brighter and with greater meaning attached at this year’s Liverpool Acoustic Festival at the Unity Theatre.

Alexandra Jayne, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Festival 2015. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

K’s Choice, The City Of Music Two. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The humble compilation album can take many forms. In now what seems at times the dim and distant past, as distant to the younger generation coming through now as Sir Edmund Hilary’s and Tenzing Norgay’s ascent of Everest to those growing up in the 1970s, the past when to have your say in music meant taking the pick of the songs you may have proudly bought or even embarrassingly hidden away due to the absurdity of the song and placed onto a C90 tape and perhaps even then handed over with much ceremony to the person you perhaps fancied, the compilation stood for something pure.

K’s Choice, The City Of Music Two. Album Review. full post

(641 words, estimated 2:34 mins reading time)

Alexandra Jayne, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. (April 2014)

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It may be the Easter break for many students up and down the country but that doesn’t mean that they either unwind over the spoils of Cadbury wars and gargantuan eggs, nor for the benefit of their own sanity or health hitting every single book for 24 hours a day ready for the impending exams that naturally hove into view once the last wrapper has been dispatched to its fiery hell.

Alexandra Jayne, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. (April 2014) full post

(481 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Thom Morecroft.

Thom Morecroft may not be a Scouser but the passion he wears on his sleeve for his adopted home of the last few years is plain enough to see. His relaxed style makes swans seem fidgety and yet he has blown away audience after audience with his music and is looked upon as one of Liverpool’s great successes.  The Everyman Theatre, newly reopened hides us away as we talk about music, including his love of the Progressive giants Genesis. With a new night of music opening up and a gig to look forward to you might think Thom Morecroft had enough on his plate to deal with but music calls all the time and there is always plenty to discuss.

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(1903 words, estimated 7:37 mins reading time)

Alexandra Jayne, Gig Review. The Brink, Liverpool. (2014).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is something of a delicious pleasure in seeing a young singer/songwriter on stage just a few weeks after you saw them for the first time and knowing deep down that what you saw on stage was only half the story.

Alexandra Jayne, Gig Review. The Brink, Liverpool. (2014). full post

(562 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Alexandra Jayne, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

As with anything in life there are slow burners and there are instant attention grabbers. The slow burners sparks, splutters and struggles against the prevailing wind but ultimately wins through and burns very bright. Then there are the attention grabbers, the ones that clutches at the heels of the interested viewer, listener, interloper and effects how they look at everything, both are valid and both, if nurtured, will stay long in thoughts of those moved in the musical sensually.

Alexandra Jayne, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(456 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)