Satin Beige at the Liverpool Loves Festival. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
In such a short time Satin Beige has become one of those performers in Liverpool that you look up to with huge respect and the abiding knowledge that all is well in the world. For whilst this woman can sing and play cello with the passion reserved for the angry, the displaced and the brave, then the world will surely keep turning and heeding her words of youthful wisdom.
Go Fiasco at the Liverpool Loves Festival 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The rule book keeps being ripped up with the earnest glee of David taking on Goliath at a game of conkers whilst using a brown painted cannon ball to press home the advantage. For Go Fiasco, every time they step on stage the boundless energy creeps up a notch, the measure of the musicianship becomes harder to ignore and the quickening pace of their wonderfully insistent songs gathers momentum and charm, for Go Fiasco, they are a living embodiment of why Liverpool has fallen very much in love with its young bands willing to pull out all the stops to make the 21st Century a new music utopia.
Ellenberg at the Liverpool Loves Festival 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Into each day something new must arise, something to find that the pleasure of being alive is as valued as it is sought after. With the advent of a new three day festival in which the city has taken to its heart, it was only quite right that one of the very latest and indeed hottest bands should make an appearance at the Pier Head as part of Liverpool Loves.
Jimmy and the Revolvers, Liverpool Loves Festival 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Liverpool without some certain young bands does not bear thinking about, they are the groups that have not only captured the new wave of the city’s music appreciation, the 21st Century in which The Beatles are still emulated and lauded but to whom also there is no personal attachment to the stories going beyond their grandparents and to whom the past now is a role model and not to be afraid of. They are also the bands that consistently give such great pleasure and the sweat of a new dawn each time they play.
Oranj Son at the Pier Head in Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Anybody who has been pushed up on to a stage first, to have the glare of the spotlight thrust with voyeuristic intent and the simmering of gentle persuasion guide them into opening a show, a talk or even just the pressure of buying the first round and knowing full well that people will drop out behind them, that others will order fancier drinks to make them look like the bigger cheese and the more generous, might get how nerve racking it is to open up as first act on arguably one of the biggest and certainly the most new weekends in the Liverpool year.
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Cast: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Meloni, Margarita Levieva, Madeline Waters, Abby Wait, Quinn Nagle, Austin Lyon, Miranda Bailey, Giovanni Miller, Samantha Hyde, David Fine, Natalie Stephany Aguilar, Drew Benda, Davy Clements, Robert Cure, Abby Wait.
There are some films that get released that you can’t help but admire the spirit in which they were released, the sheer striking sense of inadequacy that they impose on the thought processes and the feeling of the damaging voyeuristic intent in which they serve up the drama.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Javier Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo, María Varod, Perico Cervantes, Jesús Ortiz, Jesús Carroza, Salva Reina, Antonio de la Torre, Nerea Barros, Ana Tomeno, Paula Palacios, Claudia Ubreva, Lucía Arias, Chelo Castro, Jesús Castro.
Murder has always seen to be such a British fascination, the chance to play armchair detective is one that goes back before the days of the Penny Dreadfuls, before the days in which every lurid sensational aspect of the crime at hand was printed with salaticiousness and gore filled speculation and in which the art of the most despicable act grows with ever more standing in literature and art.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10
Some people are just destined to be on the stage and become the natural performer that fortune and Kismet nod their approvals for, for the future belongs to them.
In Mersey Wylie, a woman whose very name holds fascination and the sense of History that the city of Liverpool enjoys to the very maximum, kismet has more than met its match. For the sheer presence of the woman as she sings has undergone so much revolution and wonderful development from the first moments she stood on the stage at Zanzibar just a mere 16 months ago. Already brimming with the cool and the collected, she now radiates gravitas and so much fun that Quality Street would do well to take notes on what fun actually is; fun it seems is to watch Mersey Wylie enjoy herself as she sings songs that captivate and take your heart prisoner.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There is almost a sense of pity that should be extended outwards to anyone that doesn’t find the prospect of Rock, in whichever shape or form, an exciting prospect in which to delve head first into and wallow in its electric vibe and luminous structured beast like glow for however long the offer is on for.
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They might be a new name on the Liverpool band board but don’t let that fool you, for in their own dramatic fashion, Jo Mary already have a groove and perseverance that many who have been going for years would find hard to equal.
It is in the measure of both Stillhet’s prowess to find such emerging talent and place them head first into the depths of creativity via their enormously enjoyable Strings and Things evenings and in Jo Mary themselves that the unexpected ease in which they ploughed through a selection of covers but done with impossible sounding inventiveness, and a taste of what is hopefully to come in the future with a track of their own making, the dynamic and vibrant Glass Eyed and Shameless.