After an hiatus of five years, Miles Kane strutted back into his home city for a memorable closing night on his pre -release “Coup de Grace” album tour. Ever the master showman, the local hero whetted our appetites with little sample bites of his new album, due to land on 10 August, interspersed with favourites […]
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May 30th 2018, was the day I went to my first concert. And to say the least, I was excited. Who did I go to see? G-Eazy. The Bay Area rapper came to the UK for the end of his “The Beautiful and Damned” tour, showcasing not only his new album but the classics, as […]
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Sunstack Jones – A personal, melodic, emotionally charged, dreamy soundscape that draws you in. It has taken me a while to write this review, as it took me a few listens to feel that I had understood what Sunstack Jones were trying to do with this self-titled third LP. And, it was on the third […]
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FULL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCE OF MUSIC BY HANS ZIMMER, JACOB SHEA AND DAVID FLEMING FOR BLEEDING FINGERS MUSIC Following the incredible success of the BAFTA award-winning BBC One television series Blue Planet II, presented by Sir David Attenborough, BBC Studios, and FKP Scorpio are proud to present a 13 date UK live tour, which will […]
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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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