ALBUM REVIEW Artist: Ian Prowse Album: Does This Train Stop On Merseyside Website: amsterdam-music.com A ‘Best Of’ is a funny proposition for the listener. For the artist, a summation of a lifetime’s work, neatly presented in a box with lots of photographs and comment, is a lovely idea. It’s something tangible toContinue Reading
ALBUM REVIEW Artist: Mary McCombs Album: Selling Flowers Website: myspace.com/marymccombs Mary McCombs‘ album Selling Flowers is a collection of self penned songs, where Mary’s voice and guitar lay before us stories from her life and experiences. Some recent, I believe and others like the title song ‘Selling Flowers’ from the notContinue Reading
SINGLE REVIEW Artist: Rob Rivieres Single: Enough is Enough Website: robrivieres.com Rob Rivieres wrote his song Enough is Enough for the Liverpool Acoustic View Two Songwriting Challenge last year and performed it to a sell-out crowd at the showcase event on 11th November. At the end of the night he walkedContinue Reading
EP REVIEW Artist: The Fifth Movement EP: This Brewing Storm Website: thefifthmovement.com I’ve been following the exploits of Kevin Critchley since he shoved his first EP in my hand back in 2006 and I was blown away by the energy, power and passion in those four tracks. Kevin went on toContinue Reading
EP REVIEW Artist: Bird EP: Phantoms Website: birdofficial.co.uk There’s a lot to be said for living with music for a little while before writing a review. I’ve had this disc in and out of a CD tray for a couple of months now just soaking up the tracks without wanting toContinue Reading
EP REVIEW Artist: Ste Hedley EP: Gig @ Your Door Website: stehedley.co.uk Gig @ Your Door is Ste Hedley‘s first EP which follows his debut album Graces, recorded while at LIPA. It was there he played for a number of Gospel choirs whilst majoring in bass guitar, which he hasContinue 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
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
ALBUM REVIEW Artist: David Goss Album: Existence Website:davidgossmusic.com This is my first review for Liverpool Acoustic, and I was feeling a certain amount of trepidation about it – I’d never heard of singer-songwriter David Goss, and I was worried that his album might be a load of drippy “troubadour” nonsense. Fortunately, fromContinue Reading
EP REVIEW Artist: Matt Swift EP: Lesson Over Website: mattswiftmusic.co.uk Matt Swift’s new EP Lesson Over announces its arrival like an acoustic Muse and says goodbye with a tune that wouldn’t sound out of place on a modern Take That record! Lesson Over takes in all points in between tooContinue Reading
