Erasure will embark on a headline U.K. tour with European dates starting in Dublin on 31st January 2018. February will see Erasure travel throughout the U.K., including a much anticipated evening at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on February 6th before finishing up with a return to London’s Hammersmith Eventim Apollo. The tour goes on sale on Friday 2nd June and tickets for the Philharmonic Hall performance will be available from their ticket office.
Tag Archives: Philharmonic Hall
Fairport Convention, Gig Review. Music Room, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The bus rolls on, it does so because Time has need for the company it keeps and in such bands as Fairport Convention, Time understands that the message, the song, is far too important to not allow it to be heard or to be shared live. Music is not only exists to ease the suffering, to use in times of rememberance or to make those who seek to dominate society uncomfortable, it is there to be gathered around and used to make people smile, to make them enjoy life and Time, whilst sometimes being a peculiar beast, revels in the joy that can be heard.
Seafoam Green, Gig Review. Music Rooms, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
March always brings its own personal bluster and rage along with it, it is a month that dominates in many ways its environments and whilst January and February can be particularly cruel and deceitful, March verges on madness, on a tight spring, a vicious beast coiled up ready to pounce and knock you over with unexpected results. To combat the madness thrown up by a month which doesn’t believe in just standing still, in which rain and shine are intermingled like a bad marriage, some restoration of beauty and calm are needed.
The Human League, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. (2016).
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
You only have to go by the sound of the crowd to understand what music means to the people. In the end it is not about mass popularity, the endless soul destroying fight with fame and supposed fortune, it is how your art makes others feel deep in their souls and if you can have a sold out Philharmonic Hall audience singing their hearts out, making the foundations and the walls shake slightly in anticipation and the low moan of pleasure in the ears as hearts spill open over 35 years worth of love and affection for arguably one of the architects of British Synth Pop, The Human League, then the crowd cannot be wrong.
David Essex, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Some people should know better, the rush of excitement though becomes too much and whilst not done in malice, it could see such moments of venues tolerating the rush to the front to see the sex symbols, the musical icons and the true stars of longevity, disappear into the night quicker than a reality television star’s career. No harm done of course as the interloper to David Essex’s stage was dealt with in the same off hand manner that accompanied the likes of Rugby pitch invader Erica Rowe, but it did for a moment detract from what was the power of a man to whom there never has been any doubt, his place in the annals of British music.
Ian Prowse, Gig Review. The Music Room, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Summer, in all its British damp and rain soaked glory, in all its burning one day haze, which with nostalgia over time becomes as sweat driven and lethargic as the one that hit the nation in ’76, long, luxurious and never ending, summer is only possible to dream about because festivals give the music lover hope and certain musicians always make sure they play in the same place each year, around the same time, to give thanks to their fans, the ritual is one of cool dynamic, of mutual thanks.
Shine, Gig Review. Music Rooms, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
All that was missing as the purity of Scottish voice and the sense of purpose that only two harps and a glockenspiel can bring to the abundant, almost feast like musical table, was the feeling of the Music Room at the Philharmonic Hall being transposed to the Scottish Highlands. It gives the feeling of a cold storm of rampant snow being trampled underfoot by majestic reindeer hoof and well stitched made shoe leather and shiny boot and the slight taste of acridity from the log fire burning within a castle wall with the same swell of passion as the three women who make up the fantastic band Shine.
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.
Dave O’ Grady, Gig Review. Music Room, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.
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.
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.