Graham Holland is the owner of Liverpool Acoustic, editing the website, and running Liverpool Acoustic’s award-winning live music events. He's a keen runner, regularly taking part in races and parkrun, and is currently attempting to run every single street in Liverpool. He's also one of the Run Directors at The Mystery junior parkrun.
He lives in Wavertree with his husband and their cat Xiao Hei.
Live review: Woody Guthrie Folk Club @ The Ship & Mitre Thursday 29th December 2011 Visiting the Woody Guthrie Folk Club for the first time was like going back to my musical roots. It was many years ago in the upstairs room at the Ship & Mitre on Dale StreetContinue Reading
LIVERPOOL ACOUSTIC SPOTLIGHT JANUARY 2012 EXTRA Normally the Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight features the artists due to appear at our live music events. Now that we’re no longer organising a second monthly event on a regular basis the extra Spotlight show will instead feature other artists from the local scene in muchContinue Reading
ALBUM REVIEW Artist: The Grande Album: Bleaker St. Website: thegrande.co.uk Way back in 2008 at the start of my first ever CD review for Liverpool Acoustic I explained that one of the ways I measure the quality of a CD is by the length of time I keep it inContinue Reading
LIVERPOOL ACOUSTIC SPOTLIGHT 2011 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL Welcome to the Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight 2011 Christmas Special. We put out a call on our facebook page for any local acoustic musicians who have Christmas songs that we can play. We expected a couple – instead we got loads! Many thanks to everyone whoContinue Reading
LIVERPOOL ACOUSTIC CHRISTMAS PARTY PREVIEW FRIDAY 9TH DECEMBER 2011 Friday 9th December sees the Liverpool Acoustic Christmas Party at our spiritual home, the View Two Gallery on Mathew Street. Our last Liverpool Acoustic event of the year is set to be a fabulous feast of acoustic music to thrill the ears and soothContinue Reading
ALBUM REVIEW Artist: Dead Cities Album: This Killer Wave Website: deadcities.co.uk The universe has so many unanswered questions. Why is the sun’s corona hotter than its surface? Why is Eastenders so depressing? And when are Dead Cities, Liverpool’s favourite Indie alt-folk trio, going to get round to releasing anContinue Reading
LIVERPOOL ACOUSTIC LIVE PREVIEW FRIDAY 25TH NOVEMBER 2011 Friday 25th November sees the return to Liverpool Acoustic Live of the amazing Jon Gomm. Those who saw him last year at the View Two Gallery on Mathew Street will already know what a special night it’s going to be. Support is provided by theContinue Reading
Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight #57 Dave O’Grady interview This show features an interview with Dave O’Grady ahead of the launch party for his debut EP at Studio 2 Parr St, on 3rd November (full details here). The EP is out now and can be bought from iTunes, Amazon MP3, and other digitalContinue Reading
LIVERPOOL ACOUSTIC VIEW TWO SONGWRITING CHALLENGE SHOWCASE EVENT PREVIEW FRIDAY 11TH NOVEMBER 2011 Friday 11th November is the date for the Liverpool Acoustic View Two Songwriting Challenge Showcase Event. Songwriters from across the region took up the challenge by choosing a work of art from the walls of the View Two GalleryContinue Reading
LIVERPOOL ACOUSTIC LIVE PREVIEW FRIDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2011 Friday 28th October sees Liverpool Acoustic Live teaming up with the Liverpool Irish Festival for the second year at the View Two Gallery on Mathew Street and we’ve got a real international flavour once more Dave O’Grady Greta & Maev John McGurgan Tickets are £5 inContinue Reading
