Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
In days when the abhorrence of misogynistic verbal sexual barbarity seems to be making a very unwelcome and unpleasant come back, Robin Beck and her latest album Underneath shows that no matter how some might try, you just cannot keep a good woman down.
Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * * *
The 1963 film The Great Escape which starred Steve McQueen, James Garner, Donald Pleasance, Charles Bronson and Richard Attenborough is one of the iconic motion pictures, alongside Escape From Sobibor, that represent forever the spirit shown by Second World War prisoners of war or those incarcerated in death camps in their attempt to escape their surroundings. However the film, no matter how thrilling, never really captured the man behind the mass escape from Stalag Luft III, the resilient and self-assured Roger Bushell.
Originally published by L.S. Media. February 16th 2011.
It has been the best part of 23 years since New York singer songwriter Robin Beck made any type of impact with her music in Britain. Although chiefly remembered for her only U.K. number one, the power ballad First Time, the quiet American has released albums which have done well in her native homeland and in other parts of Europe but not touched the consciousness of the record-buying public in this country.
Originally Published on L.S Media. 30th July 2012.
L.S. Media Rating *****
It may have led to the most over-hyped moment in music since the Beatles/Stones battle to win fans in the sixties but Blur’s The Great Escape, the fourth studio album to get the 21st Anniversary edition make over, stands out as possibly the most cohesive, most entertaining and slyest dig at British life that the band produced.