Ian D. Hall was brought up in Birmingham and spent the vast majority of his teenage years in Bicester, near Oxford. He grew up loving music from a very early years.
Ian has written reviews for the Birmingham Evening Mail, Liverpool Live, Chris High, the University of Liverpool’s L.S. Media web site, and, of course, Liverpool Acoustic.
Ian D. Hall graduated from the University of Liverpool in June 2012 with a degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English. For the last year of his degree he was joint Arts Editor for L.S. Media and it has been his privilege to write on many of the arts in Liverpool, Merseyside, the U.K. and the rest of the World, having reviewed gigs as far as away as Poland and Canada.
Liverpool has been his home for over a decade and is without doubt the most vibrant, most cultural part of the UK. His love of music and theatre has led him to see great bands and plays, not just in Liverpool but the wider artistic community. His dearest music loves are Punk, Progressive Rock, Metal, Rock, folk and pop.
He is now a successful author of poetry and fiction, and edits the Liverpool Sound and Vision website.
Artist – David Nixon’s Navigation Album – Red Skies Release date – 22nd November 2024 Reviewer – Ian D Hall Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating – 9/10 The sight of Red Skies as we look to the horizon inspires and can also leave us daunted by the spectacle of colour, we see patterns in the scene, weContinue Reading
Artist – Rob Clarke Single – Blues, Beats and Brel Maxi Single Released – 10th November 2023 Reviewer – Ian D. Hall, Liverpool Acoustic Alliteration can be seen in some hands as a clumsy side effect of pretention, but in the hands of a true lover of human expression, observation, and sound,Continue Reading
Artist – Nunnery Norheim Album – I Saw The City Released – 15th September 2023 Reviewer – Ian D Hall, Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating – 10/10 A true observer of the human condition and one who sees the meaning behind every building, who feels every ounce of historical sweat that wasContinue Reading
Artist – Harry Tonks Single – Middle Of The Night Released – 26th January 2023 Reviewer – Ian D Hall, Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating – 8.5/10 Play me a memory that I haven’t got to yet… Life will always surprise you, if you allow yourself to wade in waters that youContinue Reading
Artist – Michael Weston King Album – The Struggle Released – 1st April 2022 Reviewer – Ian D Hall, Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating – 9/10 The hardest thing of all is to admit that The Struggle is real, that each step we take can feel, on the worst of days, as if weContinue 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
alchemy by Jade Thunder Artist – Jade Thunder Album – Alchemy Released – 22nd February 2022 Reviewer – Ian D Hall, Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating – 9/10 Some will insist on calling such events magic, a charmed dreamlike beginning in which the artist is revealed in the fullness of time; andContinue Reading
Artist – Ian Prowse Album – One Hand On The Starry Plough Released – 11th February 2022 Reviewer – Ian D Hall, Liverpool Sound and Vision Liverpool Sound and Vision rating – 10/10 To turn the means of another person’s war to that of peace, requires insight, observation, skilled diplomacy, righteous anger,Continue Reading
Artist – Cal Ruddy EP – The EdenHurst Session Released – 28th January 2022 Reviewer – Ian D Hall, Liverpool Sound and Vision Liverpool Sound and Vision rating – 9/10 The essence of art is in the shrouded mystery that precedes the reveal, for until it makes itself public, till it isContinue Reading
Artist – Neil Campbell Album – The Great Escape Released – 17th December 2021 Reviewer – Ian D Hall, Liverpool Sound and Vision Liverpool Sound and Vision rating – 9/10 To speak a language of love and sensuality without words is to acknowledge that poetry exists in many forms, that communication isContinue Reading
