Category: Live
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Live Review: Birkenhead Live – THE LOTTERY WINNERS, ANDREW CUSHIN, The Kairos, and more – Future Yard 14/8/2023.
I only got to taste the bread in the three show Birkenhead Live sandwich. I saw Skinny Living headline a few weeks ago, missed out on the meaty filling that was The Royston Club and Rianne Downey, but this last show of the project did more than enough to surfeit…
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Live Review: BIRKENHEAD LIVE – Skinny Living, Murmurs, Jamie Wooding, and LASS. Future Yard, Birkenhead, 29/7/2023.
This Saturday saw the first leg of a triple-header of events coming under the banner of ‘Birkenhead Live‘. If this was a taste of things to come then the good citizens of Wirral are in for a treat. Held on the sunny, newly refurbished outdoor stage at Future Yard the…
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Live Review: THE CORAL, Roy – Future Yard, Birkenhead – 8/5/2023.
I’d normally start a review with a little bio of the band. But to be honest if you aren’t aware of The Coral, then I’m not entirely sure this is the blog for you. Formed in 1996, for many music fans The Coral helped to fill the chasm left by…
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Live Review: THE DREAM MACHINE, Bright Town, Idyllic – Jimmy’s Liverpool, 23/3/23.
In preparation for the release of their eagerly anticipated debut album Thank God! It’s The Dream Machine, Wirral band The Dream Machine are embarking on a short three date residency at Liverpool venue Jimmy’s. On Thursday I went along to the middle episode of the trilogy to see what all…
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Live Review: Rianne Downey. Oporto, Leeds. 19th March 2023.
There are some points in an artist’s career when, if you’re lucky enough, you can look back upon and say ‘I was part of that’. I’ve got a feeling that this tour, and Sunday night in Leeds, will be one of those. I’ve seen Rianne Downey live twice before; once with just…
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Live Review: THE CLAUSE, FEVER, Wull – Jimmy’s, Liverpool -17/3/2023.
If you’d entered a packed Jimmy’s just before The Clause came on stage you may have felt a mild sense of dislocation. Witnessing the plethora of Tricolour flags and Guinness top hats, and hearing the occasional shouts of ‘Yam Yam Army’ you’d have been forgiven for thinking that you’d stepped…
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Live Review: PANIC SHACK, Shelf Lives – Jimmy’s, Liverpool, 8.2.2023.
This was definitely an early contender for ‘Gig of the Year 2023’ as Welsh pop-punks Panic Shack combined with electronic rap-grunge duo Shelf Lives to systematically take apart a packed Jimmy’s basement. Respect to the organisers who limited the support to a singular act allowing Toronto/Northampton duo Sabrina and Jonny…
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Live Review: JOE ASTLEY, Flechettes, The Facades – The Cavern, Liverpool – 22.1.2023.
Such was the show of support for Joe Astley at The Cavern that it seemed like Liverpool’s famous Mathew Street had turned into Wigan’s King Street. The good townsfolk of Wigan had travelled en masse down the East Lancs Road to attend the launch event for Astley’s debut album Twenty-First…
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Live Review: Tom A. Smith, Megan Wyn, Ruby J, Fiona Lennon – Jimmy’s, Liverpool, 8/12/2022.
Jimmy’s Liverpool wasn’t packed to the gills, but that was probably just as well as the burgeoning talents of Sunderland’s Tom A. Smith and a supporting cast of supremely talented, young artists needed a bit of elbow room to showcase their prodigious gifts. First up to impress was local singer…
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LIVE REVIEW: PLACEBO @ MOTORPOINT ARENA, CARDIFF 24/11/2022
Placebo have been in the game 26 years and that was telling for numerous reasons tonight. The stage lighting and the overall performance was was honed and perfected but the handbrake was firmly on. The androgynous and ineffable group made the conscious decision to not play the hits much to…
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Live Review: Stanleys, Flechettes, Little Planets – Lending Room, Leeds, 10/11/2022
You know that saying…you wait ages for a London bus to come and then they all arrive together? Well, that’s a bit like the music scene in Wigan at the moment. There was something of a mini-invasion from across the Pennines at the Lending Room with not one, not two,…
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LIVE REVIEW: THE HACIENDAS, Jonny Ash, The Notion, The Raymonds – EBGBS, Liverpool, 22/10/2022.
Checking my diary, over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to be spending a few nights in the treacherous cellar space on Liverpool’s Seel Street that is EBGBS. If the rest of those evenings are as good as this one, I’m in for a decent fortnight. This particular Saturday…
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Live Review: The Snuts, O2 Academy, Leeds, 22/10/2022.
From Whitburn to Leeds, from the festival small stage to a headline tour, from a bottle of Buckfast to a mid-set tequila shot, The Snuts have certainly come a long way in a short time. The last time I saw The Snuts they were shoe-horned into a mid-afternoon set on…
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Festival Review: Live at Leeds – In The City, 2022.
Live at Leeds has been nominated in no less than four categories at the 2022 UK Festival Awards. After attending this year’s event, it was easy to see why. It was well organised: wristband collection was simple; entry to venues was smooth; and there were few places where you could…
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LIVE REVIEW: Apollo Junction, Nice Guy, Liam Hillyer – Jimmy’s, Liverpool, 8/10/2022.
Whisper it quietly, but something pleasantly intoxicating is fermenting in West Yorkshire, and I don’t mean a pint of Tetley’s Bitter. Slowly but surely Leeds five-piece Apollo Junction are building up a head of steam. I saw the same band, in the same venue last December and I would estimate…
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Live Review: The Heavy North, Casino – Liverpool Arts Club, 24/9/2022.
The infinite variety of set times and my own inattention to detail never cease to amaze me. I once turned up at 8 pm to a well-known Liverpool venue to be told the evening’s headliners would not be on stage for another 3 and-a-half hours. Tonight, arriving at 7 pm…
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LIVE REVIEW: KATY J PEARSON – CLWB IFOR BACH 27/09/2022
A riff raff ensemble; part antiques roadshow part first night out made for an eclectic crowd all here to admire the genius that is Katy J Pearson. Speedboat started the night to an already full and boisterous crowd. The duo took complete advantage of this, harnessing that energy and putting…
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LIVE REVIEW: Lauran Hibberd Clwb Ifor Bach 22/09/22
Cardiff’s youth were out in full attendance to bear witness to an exciting and refreshing array of talent. Viji opened proceedings with their moody, Lo- fi indie. Drum led grooves were in high supply as the Austrian Brazilian Vanilla Jenner sauntered around the stage with pnash. A great gig opener…
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Live Review: Coach Party, Seagoth, Jimmy’s Liverpool, 8/9/2022.
When my future grandchildren ask me, ‘Grandad, where were you when you heard that Queen Elizabeth had died?’ I can confidently reply, ‘On my way to see Coach Party‘s headline spot at Jimmy’s in Liverpool’. To paraphrase Orwell ‘All gigs are memorable, but some gigs are more memorable than others’.…
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LIVE: FEET @ CLWB IFOR BACH
English weather definitely traipsed its way across the bridge on Sunday evening just in time for the commute to watch FEET at Clwb Ifor Bach. Sopping wet and squeezing into an intimate venue doesn’t sound like a smart decision or a fun time but this couldn’t have been more untrue…
The Setlist & The Script 