Tag Archives: Zanzibar

Rob McGuffin, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

From ashes does life grow, it can and will flourish given the right space, the right temperament and in music terms being somebody who cares deeply about their passion for picking up a guitar and taking an audiences hand through some great rock numbers.

When the fabulous Kids With Lighters unfortunately went their amicable separate ways, there could have been the usual fallout of genuine talent falling by the way side and emerging as some do many years later looking for a second stab at the profession. Not so with Rob McGuffin, the highly likeable and intelligent musician has carefully and with a large amount of skill attached to his superb disposition been making inroads again and has already proved himself of all places in the heart of Birmingham with his chosen musical weapon.

Sophie Dodd, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To be nervous is to expected, it is the little butterflies that growl hungrily and gnaw at you which define those that can do what they do in front of audience and those that can’t. In the raw, unrestrained and beautiful sounding Sophie Dodd it is something she may carry but she succeeds in taming them as if they were rampaging lions reduced to mewing helpless kittens.

Ian Skelly, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There has been much hype about Coral drummer turned multi-instrumentalist Ian Skelly’s debut solo offering Cut From a Star and on its homecoming performance in the Zanzibar, it is not hard to see why.