Tag Archives: Liverpool

The Blue Touch, Theatre Review. The Gregson Institute, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Daisy Leigh, Shaun Stanley, Claire Kelly, Andrew Walsh.

Writer: Karla Sweet.

Grin Theatre delights in the story in which causes a ripple a shock throughout the audience, whether the well-intended, the deeply fascinating or the type that leaves a seismic tremor waiting to erupt in your stomach, Grin Theatre have it delightfully covered.

Karla Sweet’s contribution to Grin Theatre’s Young Playwrights Showcase certainly fell in to the final category to the point that anybody within a mile radius of the Gregson institute might have felt the lurking beginnings of a judder as the audience realised just exactly what was happening to the family in the play but also the trembling violence and retribution in which to come.

The Blue Touch, Theatre Review. The Gregson Institute, Liverpool. full post

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

Laying Tracks, Theatre Review. The Gregson Institute, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Elaine Stewart, Ben Sherlock, Ann Edwards.

Writer: Jack Stanley.

Grin Theatre and new writing, it goes hand in hand with a newly temperate person finding they adore the taste of Ginger Beer, an England football team being lauded and dismissed in equal measure and the hope that at some point an unpopular Government will fall upon their collective swords.

Laying Tracks, Theatre Review. The Gregson Institute, Liverpool. full post

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

Luke Cusato, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Rarely do you go out to see a musician on stage for the first time and come away feeling as though you have seen the blossoming stages of hybridisation of elegant poetry and the subtleness of keyboards notes wafting through the air as if caught on the wings of a Red Admiral in full flight. However for anybody in the Zanzibar Club in Liverpool ahead of a long steamy night, that is exactly what they would have felt stirring as they watched Luke Cusato perform.

Luke Cusato, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

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

Run Tiger Run, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7^1/2/10

With a world that has so much going on a daily basis, sometimes an act may get overlooked. The fast pace of modern life ensuring that art mournfully suffers as the call on someone’s time eats into what would be a pleasurable experience. Either that or the prevalence to sit in an overcrowded bar with piped music assaulting the ears in much the same way waking up in amongst a flock of hungry seagulls at four in the morning would be inexcusably painful really is how people like to spend their spare time. Either way, to have missed Run Tiger Run give a commanding performance at the Zanzibar Club was one that should eat into the musical soul labelled regret.

Run Tiger Run, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(439 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Carousel, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Julie Evans, Phil Birss, Franki Burke, Camille Machin, Jamie Barfield, Jak Malone, Ruth Dalton, Charlotte Dawson, Sarah Hale, Rosemary Barfield, Trev Fleming, Ady Thompson, James Hill, Andy Godden, Carrie Cushman, Edward Feery, Andrew Abrahamson, Clare Fozard, Andy Walker, Tom Lox, Lorna Foley, Eugene Chong Hon Zhen, Sara Barnes, Jayne Strahan, Ellie Gray, Steph Minshall, Zoe Thirsk, Danielle Fernando.

There are times, not often, but on the wonderfully rare occasion, where you think you know how a play or a musical can play out because it is of the immense stature that surrounds its very core that it can only be played out in a particular, perhaps reliable fashion.

Carousel, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(613 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

Twisted Trees, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool.

Claire Sanders of Twisted Trees. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There will always be a place for your favourite music, the heart, nor brain ever lets go of any of the lyrics that you spent most of your life memorising to the point that if pushed you could recite them word for word under exam conditions whilst sinking in quick sand and rescue only possible if you even get the obscure releases pitch perfect.

Twisted Trees, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool. full post

(392 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Inge Bremnes, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool.

Inge Bremnes at Studio 2 in Liverpool. June 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 7/10

There is a well beaten path that has emerged once more between the fiords of Norway and the port of Liverpool. It has come back to life in recent years as the city opens its arms with anticipation at the thought of more good music finding its way to the venues of the undoubted capital of music culture in the U.K.

Inge Bremnes, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool. full post

(420 words, 1 image, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

The Indecisives, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool.

Isobel Lim from The Indecisives. Studio 2, Parr Street. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 7/10

To sit in a venue and watch any number of bands or seasoned solo musicians ply their trade, thrill a crowd and look pristine throughout is something that any of us can take for granted. Sometimes though we forget where the musicians start out from, the nerves of debut or even 50^th gig still thundering round their instruments and still fresh as the hour after a storm abates.

The Indecisives, Gig Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool. full post

(570 words, 1 image, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

Graham Gouldman, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is arguably nothing as fulfilling in life as seeing a master, in whatever profession, guild or sense of artistic endeavour, play infront of you knowing that they are having the same effect on every other member of the audience and that their work still hold you gripped after many years of having the fortune to stumble across their legendary output.

Graham Gouldman and Heart Full of Songs at The Epstein Theatre. Photograph reproduced with kind permission by David Munn Photography.

Graham Gouldman, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(583 words, 1 image, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Vinny Peculiar, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are many lyrical geniuses walking the Earth, and long there may be so, for the world would be a place of desolation and rampant fettered hegemony controlled by those with no sense of humour or in some cases not an ounce of poetry in their soul. Their main concern the next big hit that has been written somewhere in a mansion and something that appeals to the wallet rather than the feeling of what the lyrics and music combined mean.

Vinny Peculiar, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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