Few can hold a room in a quiet calm quite like Sam Lyon. The award-winning Cheshire based singer brought her UK tour to a standstill finale last night at Liverpool’s Studio 2, an emotional show wrought with unforgettable performances from Lyon and friends. The acoustic ambience of the room instantly wrapped the awe-struck audience into […]
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Charles Howl is the solo project of London-based musician and filmmaker Danny Nellis. It’s been quite a journey for him since releasing a five track garage-surf-punk EP back in 2013, he and his words back then hidden behind a wall of fuzz. Debut album Sir Vices a couple of years later showcased the emergence of […]
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Not a loss but not quite the full win either, last Saturday saw Ladies anticipated return to Studio 2 for the release of their new single. The show, essentially series of boys with guitars, had a slightly stilted beginning: sadly sparsely populated perhaps due to trying to follow last bank holiday’s bizarrely planned double festival. […]
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Gary Lucas who has played and composed with the likes of Jeff Buckley, Captain Beefheart, Lou Reed and Nick Cave, performed at the Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room on Friday 4th May, Naomi Campbell went along to check him out and here is her review: The sounds of a frenzied acoustic guitar fill the room with […]
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Ahead of their Liverpool Philharmonic gig on Tuesday 10th July, Mike Kneafsey caught up with the Levellers for a chat on behalf of Urbanista Urbanista: “We The Collective” may be a new release which celebrates 30 years of the Levellers, it may include beautifully reworked hits, but I still get the impression that you are […]
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Full disclosure, I play with most of these musicians on a regular basis and many are my friends. I feel perfectly comfortable telling you this because nothing I have written is hyperbole or designed to elevate my friends’ shit bands to a higher status, it is an account of a great evening through my eyes. […]
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VINNY PECULIAR is a man with a charm all of his own – he openly proclaims a love for words and he obviously cares about where he puts every word in every song, songs which he sings with passion and above all else, for me, a kindness. No wonder he’s been described as a “warm […]
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After bursting onto the scene in 2013 with their debut album Drenge and being lauded from all corners and critics – including Tom Watson MP – Drenge have continued to impress. Their follow-up second album Undertow was critically acclaimed – prompting a mass wave of coverage rolling out the ‘next big thing’ tag-line. However, Drenge promised much more […]
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Photo Credit: Dominique Daly With the sun finally making an appearance, you could be forgiven for wanting to soak it up in a beer garden, rather than hiding away in the EBGB’s basement. However, on this occasion there was no need to go outside with the good feel being brought on stage for Her’s headline […]
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Swansea-born Trampolene offered a voracious performance to an intimate crowd at Liverpool’s EBGBS. The atmosphere intensified by the basement venue’s brick-tunnelled ceiling. Himalayas and The Racket supported and were both brilliant. I caught up with frontman Jack Jones as he chatted outside the gig to fellow band members. Jones simply said, “I love playing in […]
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