What follows is my diary from my recent three week trip to the north of India. Being an “in short bursts” kind of typist, I’m going to publish it in two day blocks, a serialisation if you like. I hope that, in spite of you reading of an occasional hiccup, you will still want to visit this amazingly sensual and colourful nation. India never fails to impress. ...
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A review of Icelandic band, Samaris, at Leaf Tea shop, Liverpool ,on Thursday, 9th June, 2016. Support from the ever brilliant Feral Love. Not usually one to be lost for words when writing, I am fast running out of superlatives to describe Feral Love. I almost feel like it is an undeserved privilege to have seen them for a third time in just over a...
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A review of Sundara Karma, In Heaven and The Night Café at the Arts Club, Liverpoool. 2nd June, 2016. A packed Arts Club Loft tonight witnessed the latest stage in the unstoppable rise and rise of Reading band, Sundara Karma.The anticipation and tension was palpable. Crowds swarmed into The Loft the minute the doors opened. The support acts experienced the knock-on benefit of the few hundred...
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The Cavern Stage was set, the script written. The audience had taken their position in the stalls. The actors had run through their lines and fine-tuned their skills. I recall it as vividly as if it was yesterday. But it was two days ago! My ears can still clearly visualise and smell and taste that beautiful, sunny day in May forever imprinted on my consciousness....
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The Big Moon are not just a great girl band. They are a great band full stop. They are fast developing into writers and players of deliciously infectious punk-pop-rock music that burrows inside you like a leech and sucks out your diseased melancholy. These London bloodletters said it first: they are “suckers for you”. Here you encounter four have-a-laugh friends whose delectable performances make you...
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Feral Love from Liverpool have been rightly tipped for great things in the coming year. Their first single, the passionately evocative and dream-weaving Like the Wind, has received a whole array of plaudits and been extensively played across BBC radio stations. I was fortunate to catch up with lead singer, Adele Emmas, at their second gig on the Festevol bill earlier this month. Her answers reveal...
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I was fortunate to catch up with the MonaLisa Twins on Saturday, 30th April, 2016, between their two regular Cavern sets. We headed through the audience that had just soaked up their first batch of idyllic songs, up the iconic spiral stairs and out into the light, remarking that it was strange after just being in The Cavern. We headed off to a local Mexican...
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