Tag Archives: Liverpool

Pete Wylie, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Close your eyes and think for a minute of one of the men and women who exemplifies the whole Liverpool sound, the charm and the no-nonsense, the humour and the artistic vision all wrapped up in lyrics that make you both beam with pride and raise a fist in solidarity alongside. The sound you hear is one that you might not have heard for a while, the tone of voice still sweet, the manner of the anger and resentment to some still intense and charismatic and the utter magnetism of the performer is such that daring to take a peek through gripped and straining fingers becomes too much. For it is true Pete Wylie, the man who has a street map of his home city indelibly stamped into the very fabric of his D.N.A., is back thrilling audiences once more.

Pete Wylie, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(630 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The rich vein of life, the tapestry that weaves its way through the streets, through iconic buildings such as The Bombed out Church of St. Luke’s, the radical nature of two opposing buildings of faith being at opposite ends of one of the most artistic streets in the city and to perhaps the greatest single collection of music venues and theatres anywhere in the country in which thousands of people get to show their devotion to the natural calling of entertainment, continues from one generation to the other.

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(554 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For, Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Twenty years since the events that unfolded in the second book by the esteemed Frank Miller, one of the finest set of graphic novels is being tuned into an arguably must-see film for its fans.

Despite the prestige of the novel being tuned into a film, Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For is much more than the chance to relish into the grimy neo-noir world of Basin City and the chance to see Robert Rodriguez add extra class to an already seminal story, the focus should be on just how good, how superior the idea was to almost anything since the mind bursting days of Film Noir and the rise of the Detective novel.

Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For, Graphic Novel Review. full post

(559 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

I’m Happy Here (Honest), Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is said that somewhere between joy and despair lies happiness; perhaps acceptance would be better because happiness is surely attained when you have watched someone almost take themselves the absolute limit, perform something astonishing and see them smile at the end, that surely is the meaning of happiness; the moment in which you have seen someone achieve something great and powerful.

I’m Happy Here (Honest), Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

The Sacred Heart Of St. Luke’s.

…And the sacred hearts are turning in their mass grave.

The destruction of memory is close at hand

When even hallowed ground is up for sale

And will do more damage than any falling bomb could muster.

The image of splintered charring wood, blackened will be the only thing saved

As The Economy, greed, meanness and the rest of their merry band

Try to call Time on the Bombed Out Church without fail;

Carrying out the gluttony of savings from another city in all its finery and bluster.

The Sacred Heart Of St. Luke’s. full post

(155 words, estimated 37 secs reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Mersey Wylie.

To have seen someone become the person they are artistically is one of life’s greatest pleasures. To have watched a talent flourish and blossom is a thrill that sometimes defies words. From having watched in awe as the sound of a young woman took tentative steps and be beguiling even in the realms of student radio and onto a stage infront of hundreds can only surely make you smile. For Mersey Wylie this coming weekend is going to be the biggest step yet as she steps from behind many a shadow and shows the audience at Zanzibar that the Wylie name is something that will forever associated with the city of Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Mersey Wylie. full post

(1314 words, estimated 5:15 mins reading time)

Republica, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Saffron at the 02 Academy, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Just one look from the stage down at the heaving throng of fans said it all. The perhaps half missed wink from Saffron in the general direction of fans who clambered alongside Republica for the incredible ride suggested further hair raising times ahead and yet the manner of the performance was one of electric reminisance and a love rekindled for many in the o2 Academy in Liverpool. The wink, the strut, the pulse of a heartbeat growing stronger by the second proposed the adulation of a band that were cruelly cut off in their prime but who now in the form of the stunning Saffron, Tim Dorney and Jonny Glue, were back and sounding as terrific as they did in 1995.

Republica, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

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