Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Stuart Todd in the realms of Three Minute Hero will always make you stop and think, it is impossible not to feel the infectious delivery supplied by both the man and the band as the music plays, as the words of anger, of softness and damnation arise in the Threshold air, that moment of clarity will always come along and guide you to a point where life is truly to be seen as better for having been part of a Three Minute Hero audience.
The element of surprise, some handle the responsibility, some faint at the prospect, some surprise, some last minute addition just make the whole experience so complete that it is hard to have imagined the day without it ever having been so. Last minute surprise to the bill at Sound Food and Drink for the We Shall Overcome was the ever impressive figure of Three Minute Hero, the champion of the lyric, Stuart Todd, and as always the man and the musician was on top form.
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To each generation the prospect of strife, hardship and being looked down upon a despicable Government is a very real and frightening prospect. For the current younger generation who have lived through what was called with vigour and dishonesty, a credit crunch, a decline or even a slowdown in the economy but will perhaps be given its rightful name of the great Depression of the 21st Century as history unfolds. Three Minute Hero’s latest single, In This Generation, looks deep into the eyes of those that have caused such misery and want and shows the world exactly what despair he sees in the hate filled iris’.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
You have only to listen to Three Minute Hero to know that inside the man sits the heart of socially aware human being, a person of intrigue and one who knows the intricate nature of penning a song which is both catchy, to any genre lover, and one that has a huge point riding along just underneath the sense of sound, one that asks a question of the listeners.
Three Minute Hero. Threshold 2015, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
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Stuart Todd may go by the name of Three Minute Hero but this conscious driven musician is no flash in the pan, no three minute wonder when it comes to delivering songs with social bite and society angst. Every city, every market place in every village, town centre or urban conurbation deserves someone like Three Minute Hero, someone to whom the maverick town crier can be held up as an example to, not delivering news to the masses which has been scripted, shaped and fawned over by ministers and their collected yes men, but the ideas and truth of what we have in place.
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The humble compilation album can take many forms. In now what seems at times the dim and distant past, as distant to the younger generation coming through now as Sir Edmund Hilary’s and Tenzing Norgay’s ascent of Everest to those growing up in the 1970s, the past when to have your say in music meant taking the pick of the songs you may have proudly bought or even embarrassingly hidden away due to the absurdity of the song and placed onto a C90 tape and perhaps even then handed over with much ceremony to the person you perhaps fancied, the compilation stood for something pure.
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They say there is strength in unity; it can, however that strength can be a double edged sword for in a lot of places the pride in which the artistic scene clubs together is all well and good but it doesn’t flourish because the nature of the sprawling city is not geared up to recognise the distinctiveness that resides at its heart.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 81/2/10
What would Liverpool be without its social commentary, the opinions of those that arguably matter a lot more than the square mile of gilded refrain and occasional hot air of Westminster? The power house and the bridge between the North of England, Ireland and New York is one that sees music thrive at least in its true form because its audience understands that everybody deserves a voice. This is no less true than the vocal engagements and quietly, stealthy rawness employed by Stuart Todd, also known as Three Minute Hero.