Tag Archives: Gig Review. 02 Academy

Scare Tactics, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It doesn’t quite matter when, for timing is unimportant in such matters, but at some point when watching Scare Tactics inside the 02 Academy as they support America’s Metal sensation Kobra and the Lotus, you will feel the floor buzz as if you have somehow placed your feet on a carpet of the biggest, meanest and understandably angry bees going. The buzz turns to a loud hum and in time becomes the type of noise in which images of 747 jet plane, perhaps being piloted by the largest bee ever seen and who woke up with a hangover the size of The Empire State Building, comes across in waves. It is palpable, it is magnificent and the beat is relentless.

Scare Tactics, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

(460 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Black Diamond, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is a responsibility that must be faced with strength and humility that if you find a young group of musicians who have blown you away the very first time you see them, you have to go and find them again, give them another listen to just make sure that what you heard was a musical truth and not the first signs of sentimental middle age. You owe it to yourself to go along with a view of dispassionate attention and steel yourself to find that age has tempered your thinking.

Black Diamond, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

(599 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)

Last Horizon, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The distance between our lives has got to the point where to feel disconnected from society is perhaps a prospect that many arguably feel. Nearly seven billion people on a planet and yet life can feel as lonely in a crowded, bustling and sophisticated city as it can standing at the very top of the world in which the only company is a polar bear with an appetite so large that it mentally makes a menu of your body parts.  What keeps us together in one form or another is music, it may divide opinion, one genre’s greatness in one set of senses is another’s form of torture, but it certainly unites those who see the devastating beauty in it.

Last Horizon, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

(497 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Kajagoogoo, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 19th 2009.

Apart from the odd appearance on VH1’s Band’s Re-united, Kajagoogoo have not been seen on stage together for over 25 years. Thankfully for lovers of the 80’s pop genre they have finally answered the calls of the fans and reformed to tour and produce some new songs that should ignite further interest in one of the best performers of their time.

Kajagoogoo, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

(397 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)