Tag Archives: The living years

Mike Rutherford, The Living Years. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Genesis could well be one of those very unique bands that splits opinion in the wider music world and in amongst their own very loyal fans, the before and after brigade. The question always being, are you a Genesis/Gabriel fan or Genesis/Phil Collins acolyte? Unless you are one of those satisfied with all areas of the bands work from the very daring and dark Genesis To Revelation to We Can’t Dance, then the question can be utterly perplexing.

Mike Rutherford, The Living Years. Book Review. full post

(494 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Mike And The Mechanics, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Birmingham.

Mike Rutherford at the o2 Academy, Birmingham. Picture by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by L.S. Media. July 1st 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Mike Rutherford really needs no introduction, certainly not to the extremely fascinated and focused crowd at the o2 Academy in Birmingham who roared in vocal appreciation at the man responsible for many of Genesis’s hits over the years, and who managed to juggle his side project Mike and the Mechanics with such musical aplomb.

Mike And The Mechanics, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Birmingham. full post

(434 words, 1 image, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)