Tag Archives: Liverpool

Derek King, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Garden, Kazimier, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Rain must fall into the everyday; it is what after all makes the grass on the right side of the fence lush and green. The heavens may have opened with the feeling of the torrential storm homing in like an angry pigeon toting a bad attitude and blistering for an argument but in small corner of Liverpool, out of the rain but very much enjoying the sound of water hitting the small rounded gravel stones and the bouncing off the wooden tables, the Kazimier Garden’s audience wallowed in the beautiful sentiments offered by Derek King and the sly shake of the imagined fist as he dared the weather to do its worst.

Derek King, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Garden, Kazimier, Liverpool. full post

(380 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Roxanne de Bastion, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Garden, Kazimier, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To book end a month in Liverpool, to go from the searing heat that infused the Liverpool Loves weekend down at the Pier Head to closing what in some terms may seem like a small residency in the oncoming drizzle of the final chapter that Summer could muster at the Kazimier Garden, is something that very few performers could hope to achieve or even see in the sprawling streets of Liverpool’s musical heritage.

Roxanne de Bastion, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Garden, Kazimier, Liverpool. full post

(386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Ade Jackson, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The personification of cool is no matter the set may throw at you or the surprise lurking in the undergrowth, you take it head on, slap the sillyness that it threatens to bring and then just carry on playing as if nothing happened.

To watch Ade Jackson on stage is to feel as though you as a listener of music have a song writer and performer fully on your side. It is the equivalent of finding out that a submarine is applying for the job as both your bouncer and musical guide, for nothing seems to phase this gentle giant and the music he performed with diligence and respect at the Kazimier Garden for Liverpool Acoustic was one that was beefy, strong and upheld all the principles of entertaining a loyal and enthralled crowd.

Ade Jackson, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool. full post

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

Martha Reich, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool.

Martha Reich at the Kazimier. August 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are people around the world that will make their way to Liverpool on the basis of what the city has brought them and made them feel. They will spend time, effort and money getting to know the place and hopefully leave with more than the impression that the area is solely about the four lads who adorn many a shop window and their rightful place in British pop history.

Martha Reich, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool. full post

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

Katy McGrath, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool.

Kate McGrath at the Kazimier, August 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are tales of heroism to be told and battles that are yet to be spoken of in the heart of any performer, for the most part these stories of courage and gallant fearlessness are the sole reserve of the darkened room, the intimate setting of the shut door venue and where the glare of spotlight defects from the eyes of the artist and the slight upturned smile masking some inner torment.

Katy McGrath, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool. full post

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

Denis Parkinson, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool.

Denis Parkinson at the Kazimier in Liverpool. August 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Wherever you stand in Liverpool, wherever you care to sit and reflect upon the day and drink in the atmosphere and hum of creativity, it seems that the Liverpool Skyline is changing.

It is perhaps not noticeable from the close up waterfront or from across the beady eyes of the river but inside it, for good or bad, Liverpool is changing, the skyline being bequeathed a different dynamic and yet for a while inside the Kazimier Garden, the skyline didn’t matter, it simply remained still and listened carefully as Denis Parkinson took on his time at the microphone and gave the Liverpool Acoustic Garden songs in which to take pleasure in.

Denis Parkinson, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool. full post

(361 words, 1 image, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Geoghegan Jackson, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool.

Geoghegan Jackson at The Kazimier, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Bank Holidays were not meant for the appearance of a job’s list being presented into the hand of the Human Being, nor were they the opportune moment into which to get frustrated in a 17 mile tail back on Britain’s overstretched motorway system just to catch a glimpse of a wave and the slowly disappearing sensation of another summer gone in the blink of a British eye. What they were made for surely is the chance to listen to local music that might not have been taken in before and to spend time relishing a whole afternoon of it in your own city and away from the nights when the big band decide to play in the biggest venue around.

Geoghegan Jackson, Gig Review. Liverpool Acoustic Gardens, Kazimier, Liverpool. full post

(457 words, 1 image, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Clockwork Eyes, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

August has almost once more disappeared round the darkened corner and the obscurity that sometimes threatens to come with the September evenings as minds somehow turn towards the winter festivities three months too early, is racing with the speed of a timepiece set far too fast to cope with the chimes playing in the background. Yet through Time’s optical focus, a gig audience is able to see how the future might play out in years to come.

Clockwork Eyes, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool. full post

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

The Bass Reflex, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

It most certainly is an art form, it is abundantly creative and dealt with in a manner befitting the electronic world but it always seems to be one that plays more into the hands of the dance floor, the club scene that that where live music is the King. To stand on a stage and take a laptop computer and remix songs which have touched the heart of the listener and give them something of a mashed up hybrid, a sense of the unenlightened and devoid of the song’s enormous power.

The Bass Reflex, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool. full post

(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

45 Years, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtney, Dolly Wells, Geraldine James, Richard Cunningham, Hannah Chalmers, David Sibley, Sam Alexander, Max Rudd, Michelle Finch, Camille Ucan, Kevin Matadeen, Paul Goldsmith, Charles Booth, Peter Dean Jackson, Lucy Temple, Richard Banham, Ellie Tivey, Martin Atkinson.

The idyllic nature of a good marriage can be measured in not just years but how these years came about. To reach any number of years with stories and comfort is one thing but when it can be undermined by a figure from the past, one long unthought-of, the presence of them can be un-nerving, even after 45 Years.

45 Years, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)