Tag Archives: Liverpool Echo Arena

Brit Floyd, Gig Review. Liverpool Echo Arena.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Even a torrential downpour hitting Liverpool throughout the day could barely dent the anticipation of Brit Floyd’s welcome return to the place in which it all started.  If anything, it only heightened the expectation of what was to come, what time would allow the people of the city and its neighbourhoods to revel in, the feeling of wonderment and nostalgia that the music being skilfully recreated of Pink Floyd’s greatest moments by the finest musicians and one very special guest.

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(488 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Arctic Monkeys, Gig Review. Liverpool Echo Arena.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The hum of expectation vibrating about Liverpool’s waterfront was telling of the growing sense of anticipation that surrounded the return of the country’s most prevalent rock band to the city’s Echo Arena. Arctic Monkeys’ latest offering AM has garnished praise as possibly the band’s best collection of songs to date and fans were not left disappointed as the Sheffield act treated their followers to a gig as tempestuous and pulsating as the stormy autumn weather that preceded it.

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

The Who, Gig Review. Liverpool Echo Arena.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 10/10

Towards the end of The Who’s impressive, even epic set, there was a small message that blinked into existence for just the briefest of seconds which uttered the instruction, “Keep rocking, Liverpool’, in truth this is a city that doesn’t need telling twice but as instructions go it was up there with the best of them.

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(544 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

Madness, Gig Review. Liverpool Echo Arena.

Suggs at the Liverpool Echo Arena. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The curtain draws back at the Echo Arena and suddenly one of the biggest indoor parties opens up before an excited and fervent audience full of passion.  A collective desire to see one of the best bands of their generation perform their new songs and greatest hits for them, it can only mean one thing…that Madness are back in town again.

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(456 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Deacon Blue, Gig Review. Liverpool Echo Arena.

Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is something very enjoyable and musically intense about a Deacon Blue concert in Liverpool. Whether it is part of the Liverpool Summer Pops Festival or as part of a national tour in support of a major anniversary, there is always a huge appreciative and very vocal audience that welcomes them to the Liverpool Echo Arena.

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

Azadeh, Gig Review. Liverpool Echo Arena.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To be confirmed as support for a band whose very appearance on any stage in Liverpool can send audiences into a state of apoplexy is a daunting prospect but for young singer/songwriter Azadeh it was just another step on a road that has so far been paved with exquisite and well written music.

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

Kaiser Chiefs, Gig Review. Liverpool Echo Arena.

Originally published by L.S.Media. March 3rd 2009.

With a style that seems very heavily influenced by the old punk rock guard of The Boomtown Rats, The Jam and The Stranglers, the Kaiser Chiefs are fast becoming this generations must see and like the Rats and the Stranglers, The Kaiser Chiefs seem to have cottoned on to their audience’s and fans desire for clever social songs wrapped up in good guitar work and with a beat to die for.

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

Simple Minds, Gig Review. Liverpool Echo Arena.

Originally published by L.S. Media. July 22nd 2009.

With a brand new album fresh out of the packaging to showcase to the loyal fans at the Liverpool Echo Arena, it was perhaps unavoidable and surprising for Jim Kerr and the band to dip their toes into nostalgia and open the show with the bass driven Waterfront, which from the very start had the assembled crowd on their feet dancing away and they didn’t let up till the very end of the show.

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(352 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Deacon Blue, Gig Review. Liverpool Echo Arena.

Originally published by L.S. Media. August 1st 2009.

Even before Ricky Ross and the rest of the band finished walking on stage, the Liverpool audience anticipated that they were in for a very special evening of soul/pop from one of Scotland’s finest musical exports, and from the very first words, they were not disappointed. With the aforementioned Ricky Ross and fellow vocalist Lorraine McIntosh coming on stage to sing briefly a vocal only version of The Very Thing which the loyal gathering lapped up totally and from that moment on the crowd never sat down.

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

The British Pink Floyd Show. Gig Review. Liverpool Echo Arena.

Orignally published by L.S. Media. January 23rd 2011.

It seems that no matter what, there will always be a call for some sort of tribute band dedicated to the stalwarts of the British Progressive Rock movement that was simply known as Pink Floyd. Whereas for the last few years Liverpool and the rest of the country has had the multi talented Australian Pink Floyd to thank for keeping the memory of the band alive and in really good health, we now have quite possibly the only tribute that could top them for sheer energy and musical knowledge, The British Pink Floyd Show.

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(434 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)