Tag Archives: Philharmonic Hall

Boo Hewerdine, Gig Review. Music Room, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Boo Hewerdine at the Music Room, Liverpool, November 2016. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The music of Boo Hewerdine may draw you in, the elegance of easy virtue and taste adding spice to the occasion but it is also his dry humour, his self- depreciation and anecdotes of a profession well lived that catches the attention of his live sets.

To many in the Philharmonic Hall’s Music Room, Boo Hewerdine is a colossus of British music and as he went through the near countless songs at his and the gathered audience’s disposal, there was no arguing with that simple and honest fact of artistic life.

Boo Hewerdine, Gig Review. Music Room, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

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

Dave O’ Grady, Gig Review. Music Room, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Dave O' Grady at the Muisc Room in Liverpool. November 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Dave O’ Grady at the Music Room in Liverpool. November 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The ambience, the environment of a tangible quiet serenity is only ever enhanced when a musician of deep meaning words adds his worth to the vibe on offer. Like a master painter of seascapes finding the one flaw in his work that would have gone unnoticed by all and sundry who marvelled infront of it, the addition of a single piece of spectral light peering ominously from behind a passing cloud, not only adds texture and meaning, it adds a vision perhaps unseen.

Dave O’ Grady, Gig Review. Music Room, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

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

An Evening With Boycott & Aggers (The Second Innings.), Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cricket is all when it comes to some people’s lives and it is with little wonder when you consider that at one time the game, especially the Test arena, was seen by millions of people across British summer’s on the B.B.C. as a right and not as is now the case a preserve for those who are able to take, or even wish to procure, Sky Television’s Shilling.

An Evening With Boycott & Aggers (The Second Innings.), Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(514 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Michael Bolton, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Michael Bolton, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is a certain satisfaction to be gleaned from watching Michael Bolton on stage. The sheer effortlessness in which he sings, the manner of his performance and the smooth content feel of the music grabs an audience from the very beginning and long after he has left the stage there are still fans glued to their seats, mentally and physically exhausted by the intense feelings that have come from one person, one band, so utterly captivated by the magnetism of the song.

Michael Bolton, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(517 words, 2 images, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Lucy May, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To walk on stage infront of audience as a virtual unknown, to throw yourself upon the musical mercy of an audience that had been building themselves up for the main event, to do this whilst the spotlight glares down upon you and in some sort of electrical judgment has your life in the claws of its wiry hands and give a set of your own songs the type of true belief usually found in someone whose established credentials has seen them through a few decades; then you know you are witnessing the start of something that could go a long way to being a star of their generation.

Lucy May, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

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

Ian Anderson, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

For the audience who made their way to one of the final nights of rock to be heard in the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall before its anticipated make over, for the band on stage who entertained them solidly for over two hours, there is at times nothing like Living In The Past; especially when it comes to witnessing the legendary Ian Anderson on stage.

Ian Anderson, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

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

Go West, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You can really never have too much of watching a great set of musicians perform on stage, a furtive reminisce of singing along to a set of records as teenager and knowing that surrounding you are 2,000 people in the same building doing exactly the same thing and the realisation as you try to take in all their faces that each one of them is almost deliriously happy.

As part of the very cool package which included The Christians and and Hue and Cry, Go West’s Richard Drummie and Peter Cox thrilled an audience completely with their set and gave those thoughts of being a teenager in the 1980s a helping hand with their playful recollections.

Go West, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Hue And Cry, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

For anybody who was at Eric’s in Liverpool when Hue and Cry, the brothers Greg and Pat Kane, in May 2012 when the music they performed was so serene, so brimming with the bounty of many years as being one of the great bands to emerge from the late 80s that if the world had ended somehow in a hail of cosmic dust, nobody pretty much would have minded. Now to witness their set at the Philharmonic Hall would have just about having any audience member packing their bags and asking their own personal deity which way they should be heading.

Hue And Cry, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(468 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

The Christians, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It may have been a shorter set than any of their home grown fans may have liked but there could be no doubting the honesty, the respect and love from band to audience and given back a hundred times over. There was obvious mutual sheer enjoyment which accompanied the half dozen songs performed by The Christians as they opened up a terrific night of 80s/90s musical nostalgia at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

The Christians, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Zappa Plays Zappa, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

As the lights go down inside the Philharmonic Hall, the anticipation felt by the audience as they await the son of the legendary Frank Zappa, the just as eminent Dweezil Zappa, was akin to urged to be patient before the start of the Big Bang, everybody knew how important it was, everybody sensed it, they just couldn’t wait for it to begin.

Zappa Plays Zappa, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(621 words, estimated 2:29 mins reading time)