ALBUM REVIEW Artist: Alun Parry CD: We Can Make The World Stop Website: parrysongs.co.uk MySpace: myspace.com/parryal facebook: facebook group We Can Make The World Stop is Alun Parry’s first CD since 2007’s Liverpool 800: True Love Of Mine EP, and his first full length album since his debut Corridors ofContinue Reading
ALBUM REVIEW Artist: Jimmy Rae CD: Deliverance Website: www.jimmyrae.co.uk MySpace: myspace.com/jimmy_rae I’m going to break with the standard album review convention by coming straight out with it. Deliverance, the new album from Jimmy Rae, is brilliant! Buy it now! In fact, buy lots of copies – one for yourself, oneContinue Reading
Gig review: The Gulshan Lounge presents Unplugged Thursday 7th May 2009 – ‘SUMMER BLUES’ featuring SJ Downes & friends Travelling southwards away from Liverpool town centre and a mere pebbles throw away from Liverpool cricket club on Aigburth road, lies The Gulshan Restaurant. Recently refurbished to what amounts to aContinue Reading
Back at the beginning of April we posted the news that Billy Bragg would be appearing at The New Picket on 22nd May. At the time it seemed a long way away, but now it’s just round the corner. So we though now would be a good opportunity to remindContinue Reading
ALBUM REVIEW Artist: Jessicas Ghost CD: The Winning Hand Website: jessicasghost.co.uk MySpace: myspace.com/jessicasghost “All I want is to see you smiling” Don’t you just love it when a new CD grabs you from the very first chord? Jessicas Ghost’s debut album The Winning Hand does just that. The opening trackContinue Reading
It’s Liverpool Acoustic’s first birthday tomorrow, 21st April 2009. When we started the website we hadn’t planned for it to be any more than just an online resource to support the Liverpool acoustic music scene. Since this time last year the site has grown, and now has an even moreContinue Reading
ALBUM REVIEW Artist: Tony Kehoe CD: Not Everything Must Lead To Nothing MySpace: myspace.com/kehoesongs “No-one ever said it’s going to be fantastic” Ah, yes – the tricky second album. We’ve all seen it before, haven’t we? A new artist comes along and blows us away (or at least mightily impressesContinue Reading
ALBUM REVIEW Artists: The Kevin Critchley Outfit CD: Scars Website: kcomusic.com MySpace: myspace.com/kevincritchley “Fully charged” Back in the summer of 2006 I was at Alun Parry’s Acoustic Slice event handing out flyers to advertise the new It’s A Frog’s Life Acoustic Podcast (still going strong at itsafrogslife.net/podcast, by the way!)Continue Reading
ALBUM REVIEW CD: Poor Boy (Boronda Records 2008) Artists: The Good Intentions Website: thegoodintentions.co.uk MySpace: myspace.com/thegoodintentionsmyspace Liverpool’s Sweethearts of the Rodeo The Good Intentions consist of R.Peter Davies (lead vocals and guitar), Gabrielle Monk (vocals) and Frank Roskell (electric guitar and vocals), and whilst based in the UK this recordContinue Reading
ALBUM REVIEW CD: Long Way North Artist: Rob Clarke Website: myspace.com/robclarkeunplugged “At the end of September, when the crowds melt away, and the sun turns to rain.” These are the opening lines to September, the first track on Rob Clarke’s new CD Long Way North. As an opening track itContinue Reading
