Tag Archives: Liverpool Acoustic

Revolver At 50, Gig Review. Various Artists, Leaf, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

In the comfortable surroundings of one of the City’s less obvious gig venues, the clamour of evening tea and daily tasked conversation rising just as the summer moon makes it’s appearance in the Liverpool sky, the upstairs at Leaf, always the height of serenity and musical appreciation, became an oasis for memory, contemplation and praise, as Revolver, The Beatles 7th studio album was lauded and acclaimed by the packed out audience and as each song was performed by some of the very great talents in the Liverpool music community, there was undoubtedly, beautifully, magic in the Merseyside air.

Revolver At 50, Gig Review. Various Artists, Leaf, Liverpool. full post

(567 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

Niamh Jones, Gig Review. Above The Beaten Track Festival: The Bluecoat, Liverpool.

Niamh Jones, The Bluecoat, Liverpool. August 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Niamh Jones, The Bluecoat, Liverpool. August 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Niamh Jones is a woman with such a sparkling voice that it is no wonder at the age of 15 she was given the opportunity to impress all who attend the highly respected nights hosted by the people at Liverpool Acoustic. Two years on, Niamh Jones is something special to behold, and inside The Bluecoat on an August day which betrayed the thought of blistering sunshine blasting its rays upon the multitude of people making their way to take in a day of music, Niamh Jones again showed the reason why she is thought of so well.

Niamh Jones, Gig Review. Above The Beaten Track Festival: The Bluecoat, Liverpool. full post

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

Mark Poutney, Mark One. Album Review.

First published by Liverpool Acoustic on April 5th 2014.

Rating 9/10

Some performers ooze class without even having to play a cord or a single note. Of course when they do put together the start of a new song that you just know is going to capture the imagination and playful tug at the heart strings the only decent thing to do, the only courteous action to take is to wallow in the core of something either incredible or beautiful or…if you are really fortunate, both.

Mark Poutney, Mark One. Album Review. full post

(365 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Jo Bywater, Chasing Tales. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Earlier in the year, Jo Bywater started thinking about recording more music once again. It has been just over two years since she released her astonishing debut album Cycle Grace Pulse Break and every day since then has seemed a little greyer. There has been the wonderful surprise gig in which to catch her at and relish in the way her songs nurse your psyche but with any decent performer, what the heart yearns for is new songs in which to enjoy and to know they are still actively in love with what they do.

Jo Bywater, Chasing Tales. E.P. Review. full post

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

John R. Chatterton, Gig Review. Bluecoat Gardens, Liverpool. Liverpool International Music Festival.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

John R. Chatterton has the unnerving ability to make songs that you have listened to perhaps a million times before sound somehow fresh and new. Tracks, that despite having been on the end of radio play and being sat in people’s records collections gathering dust, mean a great deal to people but have become stale and repetitive. In the hands of this superb musician, the music, his own compositions and those he covered were played with aplomb, a defining skill and instrumental ability that is hard to imagine anybody else being able to do.

John R. Chatterton, Gig Review. Bluecoat Gardens, Liverpool. Liverpool International Music Festival. full post

(452 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)