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.
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 50th gig still thundering round their instruments and still fresh as the hour after a storm abates.
Little Sparrow at the Studio 2, Liverpool 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Although some artists grow on you over time, there is an argument for the thought that your first opinion of them is normally the one that is correct. With life becoming far too fast to keep up at times before the next trend or even whim, the next vogue act or person in favour on television. Sometimes you have to make a stand, draw a long line around yourself and say, bear with me as I really want to savour this thanks and in Little Sparrow, the line demands to painted over in several coats of luminous yellow paints and a few traffic stops signs flashing stop for good measure.
Susie Jones at Studio 2 in Liverpool May 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
In a night that was filled to overflowing with very cool and deserving female musicians making all the headlines inside Studio 2 on Parr Street, to open up ahead of the likes of Little Sparrow, Ingrid Frosland and the superb Norwegian band Kalandra might be considered a tad daunting. However, for Susie Jones, daunting is just another word for showing exactly what you are made of and watching her and her two fellow musicians on stage, the equally cool Dave Parker and Rob Kentell, daunting was a by word for secure and musically affluent.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The small candle holders that flicker and move like a frustrated Siren caught in a winter draft and cast an almost loving shadow over the tablecloths offers the crowd that has assembled for Parr Jazz on Parr Street the chance to relish in the thought of what is to come as the fantastic Scandinavian Jazz/Folk band House Of Trees make their way to the heart of U.K. music, Liverpool.
Originally published by L.S. Media. February 13th 2012. 
Parr Street Studios will host a very special evening in aid of Cancer Research on Monday 27thFebruary. Presided over by Liverpool musician Barry Briercliffe, the night will be a celebration of good music with a couple of extra special guests thrown into the mix that will just one of those nights in Liverpool that in all honesty, you have to be at!
It is fitting that Barry should host this night at Parr Street, with a new album coming out soon, Barry has long been one of the musicians that Liverpool loves, in that he always gives back to the city just as much as he gets out of it.
Barry Briercliffe at Studio 2. Picture by Ian D. Hall
Originally published by L.S. Media. March 5th 2012.
In the area where some of the great albums of the last decade or so have been recorded, argued over, intense discussions over what musical note goes where, it’s always a relative oasis of calm when a night of music goes on, surrounded by the wooden panelling, pictures and awards and the sense of history.
Barry Briercliffe and Studio 2 sounds like a marriage made in heaven, add in the likes of the excellent Jo Bywater, Jessicas Ghost, Rae Clarke and Eddie Cooney, and that marriage is as close to a night of acoustic musical heaven as is near possible to experience.