Event – Jeffrey Martin Support – She’s In The Trees, Mike West Date – 23rd January 2024 Venue – Future Yard Reviewer – Alan O’Hare Sweetheart, I ain’t your Christ. That’s a lyric from a Josh T. Pearson song running around my head as I travel home to Liverpool underground from Birkenhead.Continue Reading
Event – Nunnery Norheim ‘I Saw The City’ album launch Support – Sara Wolff Date – 16th September 2023 Venue – Music Room, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Reviewer – Alan O’Hare A great singing voice can stop the clocks – but it’s only those singing with an aim that’s true who can trulyContinue Reading
Artist – Only Child Single – The Visit Released – 21st July 2023 Reviewer – Helen Maw, Liverpool Acoustic Taken from their highly anticipated, upcoming fifth album, ‘The Visit’ is the brand new singlefrom Only Child. A melancholic yet hopeful track, The Visit follows the successful release of‘Looking Forward To Looking BackContinue Reading
Artist – Dorothy Bird Album – Belonging Released on vinyl – 24th June 2022 Reviewer – Alan O’Hare, Liverpool Acoustic Rating – 8/10 There’s nothing like a warm, analogue sound to send a male, middle-aged, acoustic guitar-loving reviewer into raptures. The rub? The warm, analogue sound produced here is the result ofContinue Reading
Only Child celebrate their tenth anniversary with a brand new album Straight Lines which they’re launching with a full band show at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Music Room on Friday 18th March 2022. Liverpool Sound and Vision’s Ian D Hall gave the album 10/10 calling it “an album of class, sincerity, drama, and aboveContinue Reading
Artist – Only Child Album – Straight Lines Released – 18th March 2022 Reviewer – Ian D Hall, Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating – 10/10 “Time Flies Over Us, but leaves its shadow behind”, and what a mighty shadow is to be felt when someone, anyone, finds themselves stepping off the trainContinue Reading
As Ian Prowse’s Monday Club celebrates 10 years at Mathew Street’s Cavern Pub Liverpool Acoustic’s Alan O’Hare caught up with the man behind it to find out what it means to him. The Ian Prowse Monday Club at The Cavern Pub has cemented itself into the bricks and mortar ofContinue Reading
Artist – Only Child Single – Straight Lines Released – 19th March 2021 Reviewer – Stuart Todd, Liverpool Acoustic Straight Lines is the first taster from the fourth album by Only Child. Fronted by Alan O’Hare, Only Child as a live band have been put on ice due to lockdown. His inspired covers EP Sound from last year wasContinue Reading
Artist – Aviator Album – All You Haters Released – 22nd June 2020 Reviewer – Alan O’Hare, Liverpool Acoustic Aviator is ex-Cast, Shack and Echo & The Bunnymen bass player and backing vocalist Pete Wilkinson. The backing vocalist tag is key to understanding what Wilkinson did next after his acclaimed adventures withContinue Reading
Only Child announce the release of their album Emotional Geography, alongside new video Scouse, to be launched Friday 22nd February 2019 at the Music Room. The eclectic folk ensemble led by Liverpool songwriter Alan O’Hare, release their new album on Friday 22nd February 2019. This third album, which will beContinue Reading
