Tag Archives: Gig Review. Constellations

Brothers Of Mine, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool. Shout About It Live.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You cannot choose family, it is a readymade solution to helping you in sour times, it is the possible agony to be expected when life takes the sad or unexpected turn; family is shrouded in the playful and sometimes the jealous, without it though nature and society become off-balance, you can fall and your sister will pick you up, but quite often there is nothing more helpful at your back than knowing and saying to yourself that the Brothers Of Mine will be watching, ready and waiting for action.

Brothers Of Mine, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool. Shout About It Live. full post

(446 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Satin Beige, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool. Shout About It Live.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In the end it is how you approach life that makes you stand out, despite what the day may throw at you, no matter the events leading up to the moment you take the stage upon; you glare in to the lights, you see the audience’s own hopes and dreams reflected back at you, and you sing and perform as if the world and its consequences don’t matter. For the point is simple, you do everything in your power to sing as if you are bringing the night to an end at Madison Square Garden, that you are saying Goodnight Manhattan.

Satin Beige, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool. Shout About It Live. full post

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

Southbound Attic Band, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool, Liverpool Calling 2018.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Southbound Attic Band, Constellations, Liverpool. June 2018. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

The Southbound Attic Band may have recently given the people of London a run for their money with a deserved display of Merseyside passion, they may have taken on what may seem like to be the world, its wife and those to whom have not had the pleasure of their company in the past, but where do you go from there, for the pleasure of their company and the wonderful outlook of the true-life observational lyric, it is to know that Ronnie Clark and Barry Jones will always stay humble, will always be the epitome of the honest raised eyebrow and have the wit of a thousand people chugging through their hearts.

Southbound Attic Band, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool, Liverpool Calling 2018. full post

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

Thom Morecroft, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool. Liverpool Calling 2018.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Thom Morecroft at Liverpool Calling 2018. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Life is busy, we have made it our mission it seems to fill the hours in such a way that to sit still for a while and take in the sound of a local great might raise a few eyebrows on the faces of those who believe we should always be expending energy; that you are not actually being productive if you not moving a muscle.

Thom Morecroft, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool. Liverpool Calling 2018. full post

(427 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Michael Bennett, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool. Liverpool Calling 2018.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Michael Bennett at Constellations, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

It seems only right after all that the velvet tones of Michael Bennett should be on show at some point during this year’s Liverpool Calling, a weekend of music held across several venues and with even greater scope than perhaps had been imagined when the team behind the festival started out. What has always been a certain fact though is just how good Mr. Bennett has become over the years, the sound of velvet doesn’t come by accident, it takes dedication and hard work, the muster of any serious and patient performer.

Michael Bennett, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool. Liverpool Calling 2018. full post

(435 words, 1 image, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Joe Kelly, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is something tremendously satisfying about sitting in a place of worship all day, feeling the sense of a different presence wash over you, especially when it from a song book you haven’t had the pleasure of hearing before.

The writer of the solemn text standing in the arena, the musical pulpit and with guitar in hand, keyboards and backing vocalists ready to praise the written word and laid down tune, worship is something you feel compelled to do. Though Constellations is far from a church as you can imagine, if your belief is in the power of the art that lays within us all, then the final act of Beerdfest 2016 would have anyone clutching their hearts and straining their ears to hear the words of Joe Kelly.

Joe Kelly, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool. full post

(414 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Benn Helm, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The day is filled with the unseen and the unexpected, it is the time in which the shadows find glee at the darkness and shelter we simple spectres of humanity crave for; the comfort of the music we know and never daring to step beyond it out of fear or the thought of betrayal to the memory of the band that you have nurtured in your soul for as long as you have taken breath.

Benn Helm, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool. full post

(445 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

SheBeat, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Jodie Schofield is a much missed woman around Liverpool, the voice of a thousand dreams has found another part of the world in which to rest the souls of the anxious and play for those who need saving; it is a loss that quite rightly many in the acoustic scene of Liverpool have felt but it was also one that was quickly rectified, albeit too briefly as the performer behind SheBeat, not only hosted her day of praising all things beard but also found time to perform songs and put her new SheBeat E.P. into the public gaze.

SheBeat, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool. full post

(463 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Maddie Stenberg, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

One of the most valuable lessons that can ever be learned is almost something that comes out of instinct and character; it is the intuition to keep going regardless is being thrown at you, to not give in to those obscene forces of the surface noise and the crackle of the amped and buffeted. It can be taught but it is an art that seems more natural if your impulse is to play through it all and still perform a great set.

Maddie Stenberg, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool. full post

(425 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Gary Edward Jones, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Even the spectre of near biblical sounding April rainfall and destructive wind whistling round the building couldn’t deter the sound that Gary Edward Jones and his band were making in Constellations. If anything, as the heaviest of raindrops fell upon the roof of the building and the wind roared down the Mersey River and into the heart of the Baltic Triangle, it was almost if the elements, the drive of nature was applauding and cheering on The Cabinet Maker. Each droplet heard in time as if the polite ovation of a classical music audience had somehow been thrown into the mix of the night; it was one that was most welcome and assuring.

Gary Edward Jones, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool. full post

(421 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)