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.
Live review: Liverpool Acoustic Afternoon @ Threshold Date: Saturday 29th March 2014 Venue: The Baltic Social Reviewer: Ian D Hall Caroline England The question should always be, “Did you enjoy what you saw at Threshold?” For anybody who stepped into the confines of The Baltic Social on the Saturday of Threshold 2014 and hungContinue Reading
ALBUM REVIEW Artist: Mark Pountney Album: Mark One Reviewer: Ian D Hall Rating: 9/10 Some performers ooze class without even having to play a cord or a single note. Of course when they do put together the start of a new song that you just know is going to capture the imaginationContinue Reading
Live review: Iain Till Date: Thursday 9th January 2014 Venue: The Brink Reviewer: Ian D Hall Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * The New Year is a week old and whilst many are feeling their way back into the way of 2014, the first stirrings of musicContinue Reading
Ahead of her EP launch this coming Friday 27th September, Liverpool Sound and Vision’s Ian D Hall caught up with Jo Bywater to chat about life, music, songwriting and teaching. Yorkshire born, Liverpool based singer songwriter Jo Bywater is one of those individuals in life that, no matter how manyContinue Reading
Live review: Liverpool Acoustic Garden Simon Cousins SheBeat John Chatterton Me and Deboe @ the bluecoat Liverpool International Music Festival Saturday 24th August 2013 Simon Cousins Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10 Some musicians just radiate warmth and a sort of musical love as soon as they step on aContinue Reading
James J Turner took time out from recording and mixing his next album and preparing for his gig with Radical Liverpool this weekend to talk to Liverpool Acoustic’s Ian D Hall. You’re going to be playing at the Casa soon? James: “Yes, it’s on Saturday, 11 May, Cup Final Day!”Continue Reading
Live review: Cornmarket Acoustic Club @ The Cornmarket Tuesday 2nd April 2013 During the day, the streets that surround and hem in the business quarter into a hive of monetary activity, are awash with people going about their trades in the hope that the next big thing will come alongContinue Reading
Live review: Dennis Locorriere @ Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Saturday 30th March 2013 Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * * * Over the last few years the main stage of the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall has hosted many impressive evenings with musicians who have come from far and wide andContinue Reading
Author: Keith Elliot Greenberg Book: December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon Died Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * * * There are various moments in time, especially in the fast hard news dominated world of the 20th and 21st Century, where a single event can affect millionsContinue Reading
Liverpool Sound and Vision’s Ian D Hall reviews the ProGuard Lin-Ear PR20 Linear Attenuation Music Earplugs. Read on for your chance to win a pair. Review: ProGuard Lin-Ear PR20 Linear Attenuation Music Earplugs Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * For those that value the safety of theirContinue Reading
