The Voice, The Piano and The Guitar play Liverpool Acoustic Live’s 6th birthday this Friday Double award-winning Liverpool Acoustic Live celebrates its sixth birthday with three top vocal, piano and guitar talents at Mathew Street’s View Two Gallery this coming Friday 27th February 2015. The Voice Headlining the show is everyone’s favourite Berlin-born, London-basedContinue Reading
Live review: Love Folk Festival Date: Friday 13th & Saturday 14th February 2015 Venue: The Atkinson Reviewer: Peter Cowley – FATEA Magazine Love Folk? Who doesn’t Love Folk? The invitation from The Atkinson was to “spend the most romantic weekend of year with us dancing, singing, drinking, eating and generallyContinue Reading
You don’t have to work for an event agency to know there’s a huge amount of talent out there on the local music scene. We’ve got superb singers, sensational songwriters, and marvellous musicians of all kinds. And guitarists. Merseyside is never short of guitarists! But how good a guitarist are you?Continue Reading
Merseyside has a brand new folk festival, and we’re rather excited about it! Love Folk Festival takes place over two days from Friday 13th to Saturday 14th February 2015 at The Atkinson, Southport. The aim of the festival is to celebrate new, upcoming and traditional folk and roots music. AlongsideContinue Reading
It may be a chilly start to February but there’s no need to hibernate with so many fantastic music events taking place. We try to fit as much as possible into our monthly newsletters and online diary but we’re not able to cover everything so we often tweet and retweet newsContinue Reading
LIVERPOOL ACOUSTIC LIVE FRIDAY 30th JANUARY 2015 ROB JONES & ROB WHITE, RICHIE SYRETT, ELLIE ROSE SMITH, MONDAY BLACKBIRDS Liverpool Acoustic Live returns to the View Two Gallery this Friday 30th January Double award-winning Liverpool Acoustic Live returns to Mathew Street’s View Two Gallery for the first event of the year thisContinue Reading
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SINGLE REVIEW Artist – Craig Lawlor Single – If You Knew Release date – 24th January 2015 Reviewer – Will Barnes I was provided with a YouTube link to a video of this song, and seeing it begin playing before managing to switch my computer’s speakers on didn’t really fill me with confidence. Craig LawlorContinue Reading
ALBUM REVIEW Artist: Various Artists Album: Mellowtone: Ten Years Reviewer: Alan O’Hare Talk about a labour of love. “We hope our selection gives a taste of the city’s unplugged underground from 2004 to 2014,” says curator Dave McTague. He can rest easy. McTague, as lots of you will already know, is theContinue Reading
There’s another course starting this month that goes hand in hand with the songwriting course we told you about last week (click here to read all about it). Gerry Murphy’s The Art and Craft of the Acoustic Guitar is a 10 week course that introduces students to the history and developmentContinue Reading
ALBUM REVIEW Artist: Shoes4Brakes Album: The Winner Stays On Reviewer: Stuart Todd Shoes4Brakes are a lively acoustic duo, featuring lead singer and guitarist Gareth Jones and cajôn/percussionist and backing singer Simon Hadfield. Since the two came together in 2012, Shoes4Brakes have steadily built up a reputation as one of the most exciting liveContinue Reading
