Tag Archives: Gig Review. Epstein Theatre

Gretchen Peters, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It’s not often Liverpool has a member of the prestigious Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame within its midst. The rare occurrence, as uncommon as the sight of solar eclipse without it being obscured by both dark threatening clouds and forethought in positional judgement, is one that should be relished. In Liverpool terms it is like going across to Nashville and finding the great Pete Wylie delivering a monumental set to wild enthusiastic Country music lovers, it is a set many in the city would dearly love to happen for the auspicious and celebrated lover of Merseyside.

Gretchen Peters, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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Julian Cope, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Julian Cope at The Epstein Theatre in Liverpool 5th February 2015 photograph David Munn. www.davidmunn.co.uk.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When you come home, or at least the place that loves you like no other, then you are allowed to be yourself and be rewarded with affection, the hearty laugh and the biggest, most heartfelt slap on the back imaginable. For Julian Cope, a son of the Midlands, a musician who just knows instinctively how to write songs that captures essence and stirs emotions, is more welcome in Liverpool than the sight of a European Cup Final Trophy atop of Red Rum and at the Epstein Theatre, that essence came out of the pumped out mists and gave the packed out audience an evening in which no one would have left with anything but gladdened heart.

Julian Cope, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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Stephen Langstaff, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Stephern Langstaff at the Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. December 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

One of the ways in which to measure a person is how they can be weighed up in a situation not of their making or in the face of impossible insurmountable mounting odds; the quality of a person is not in what they eat, what they wear or how much stuff, gadgets, cost of house, money or seeming how popular they are after they have bought a round of drinks but in how they cope with a new challenge being thrown at them there and then on the spot and the power of how they are viewed.

Stephen Langstaff, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(562 words, 1 image, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

The Science Of The Lamps, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

The Science of the Lamps at The Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. December 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It doesn’t matter how long it has been since you last saw Science of the Lamps perform, some things are timeless enough to go at least a week without seeing. No more than a week though if you can ever help it and the twin dilemmas of appropriate funds and urging vocalist Kaya Herstad Carney to play more often with the imagery she deals out with utterly delicious precision are stacked in your favour.

The Science Of The Lamps, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(469 words, 1 image, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Julia Fordham, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Julia Fordham at the Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. November 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Virtually every artist that goes upon stage is highly regarded by those that wait patiently for their appearance in the local area. They are looked upon with a mixture of awe, the hope of being entertained and taken away from the lives the audiences have found themselves in but few seem as admired and longed for than Julia Fordham appeared to be by the crowd that filled the Epstein Theatre on a shivery and pitch black November night in Liverpool.

Julia Fordham, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(461 words, 1 image, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Justin Currie, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Justin Currie at the Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. Photograph by Nic Perrins.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The noise that greeted Justin Currie as he came out on stage at the Epstein Theatre could not have been louder had Concorde decided to drop in unannounced on Hanover Street and empty its passenger cargo full of Scotland fans celebrating winning the World Cup, Independence from Westminster and the Return of Take The High Road and Taggart to television screens onto the theatre’s front door step. With a smile which was as broad as a swish of the Loch Ness Monster’s tail, Justin Currie sped straight into the set and gave a performance that somehow was enjoyed more by the citizens of Liverpool than by those who made his show in Edinburgh in August such a phenomenally enjoyable evening.

Justin Currie, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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Ella The Bird, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Ella The Bird at the Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

How often can you honestly place your hand upon your heart and swear that you have uttered the word wow, that three little word that escapes like a phantom, never knowingly seen or oversold into the ether, as you have watched a support act on stage? It happens, like the rising of the sun, just because you don’t see it every day doesn’t mean that it has forgotten to poke its head above the misty horizon and bounce its rays straight into your eyes. It happens, perhaps once in a while, perhaps once in fifty gigs, but it does happen and listening to Ella The Bird performing on stage before Justin Currie made his own wow effect on the Epstein Theatre audience; the very sizeable wow was heard from somewhere in the audience and the small smile of contented reality bit home.

Ella The Bird, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

Dreaming Of Kate, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Maaike Breijman performing Kate Bush songs. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

When Kate Bush announced her first live shows for 35 years, there were bound to be a lot of people that were going to be left disappointed in being unable to see one of Britain’s perhaps most reclusive, certainly iconic, exceptionally gifted female artists of the last 50 years.

Dreaming Of Kate, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(657 words, 1 image, estimated 2:38 mins reading time)