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
Live review: Jimmy Rae @ Liverpool Acoustic Live plus Roxanne de Bastion, Celine Carroll, and Dominic Dunn The View Two Gallery Friday 23rd March 2012 What a great evening! Graham Holland and his Liverpool Acoustic team have done it again! Tonight we had performances from four exceptionally talented artists, inContinue 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
Live review: Bird @ Liverpool Acoustic eXtra plus The Sea Kings, and Thom Morecroft The View Two Gallery Friday 9th March 2012 The fact that the Acoustic Music scene is thriving in Liverpool is due in no small part to the sterling efforts of Graham Holland and his Liverpool AcousticContinue 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
Live review: Rae Morris @ Leaf Thursday 23rd February 2012 Review // Mellowtone & See the Sound present: Rae Morris – plus Thomas J Speight, Dave O’Grady // Leaf 23.02.12 It was a pretty full house at Leaf for the first show of Rae Morris’ tour and with two monthsContinue 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
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
