Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
To be considered a legend you must have spent a lifetime not only rolling with the punches, but also been willing to throw a few in return, to not be a person guarantees an affection of Time, the unbreakable bond between satisfaction and the clobbering appreciation for your worth to the public.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Happiness is a state of mind, in much the same way that others urge others to smile more and frown less, perhaps out of concern, more likely out of control, to see the world as a place where all you can do is be happy is to arguably lower one’s guard, to feel secure when the truth is at any given moment life can give way to grief, to feel the kind of syndrome where it causes one to ponder that the measure of survival like any creature has been replaced with unnatural continual contentment.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Looking forward it always seems perfectly sensible to Shine A Light into the darkness, into the unexpected and day to day unknown, the challenging, often energy draining, action comes with taking that light and looking at where you have been, behind you, into the past where such regrets and missed opportunities come back to not only haunt you but to make you feel conspicuous as to your mind set in the present day.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Bryan Adams, perhaps more than ever, knows how to take an audience on a ride of musical exuberance and heart beating songs; always entertaining live, Bryan Adams has become one of Rock’s elder statesmen and he has done so without losing the gift of youthful expression and the energy of a man possessed of charm, confidence and undoubted skill. To lose such attributes would be to diminish the truth behind the musician, to lose them would be depriving one of the great entertainers of his time.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10
The album’s instruction is clear, even if the final result isn’t. Get Up may be the command of an artist with so many hit songs and great tours behind him but his latest offering, the directive familiar of a thousand sleep induced mornings or the order to carry on the Rock fight, falls somewhat short of being an incisive and authorative instruction by the Canadian Rock legend.
Bryan Adams at the Liverpool Echo Arena, Photograph reproduced with kind permission by Marie Dodd, November 2014.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
For the next few months the Liverpool Echo Arena will vibrate to the sound of the multitude of Rock acts that will come to the U.K.’s music city in a blistering undertaking to see out 2014 and to make sure 2015 is another vintage year to remember. With the likes of Peter Gabriel and The Who making their way to the Mersey shoreline, the Echo is getting the attention it deserves, with the Kaiser Chiefs, Korn and Slipknot all descending upon the music heart, it can surely only be time before other more established bands realise that the tour schedule doesn’t always have to stop at Manchester.
Photograph by Ian D. Hall
Originally published by L.S. Media. November 29th 2011.
L. S. Media Rating ****
If there are any albums that summed up the great sea change in the way that rock music was presented and looked upon 20 years ago, then music lovers need only look at the at the music of Bryan Adams and Nirvana. Bryan Adams released his Waking Up the Neighbours album after stunning success with the ballad (Everything I Do), I Do It For You. This song captivated the romantic hearts of the single buying music lovers and stayed at number one for an amazing 16 weeks. By the time his album came out, Britain’s youth culture was falling in love with a Seattle Grunge band in the shape of Nirvana.