Live review: Eric Brace and Peter Cooper plus The Good Intentions, and Linus Rowe @ Liverpool Acoustic Live The View Two Gallery, Mathew Street Friday 20th July 2012 Eric Brace and Peter Cooper and the English Summer both made their long-awaited returns to Liverpool today. Eric and Peter last playedContinue Reading
Live review: Writer’s Showcase Hannahs Bar Thursday 12th July, 2012 A word of advice to anyone thinking of starting a new event – stay clear of Thursdays. Not that there’s anything particularly wrong with this day of the week, it’s just that there are so many other events taking placeContinue Reading
Live review: Last ever Family Folk-up and final Random Family gig, with SJ Downes, Clean Cut Kid, Sparkwood & 21 St Bride’s Church Saturday 30th June, 2012 Tonight was my first experience of The Family Folk-Up. Having seen the gig advertised but fearing it would be the sort of event whereContinue Reading
Live review: Liverpool Acoustic Afternoon The View Two Gallery Saturday 9th June, 2012 What better to do on a rainy Saturday afternoon than to listen to acoustic music? Three floors above the leery pavements of Mathew Street, away from shopping madness and breaths above jubilant drinking pits at ground andContinue 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
Event review: Wirral Folk on the Coast Festival @ The OC Club, Bromborough Sunday 26th June 2011 Attending only the last day of a long weekend Folk Festival isn’t ideal if you’ve been tasked with completing a review of the event. It is possible, however, to uncover the success (orContinue Reading
