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A pebbly beach. A cool, jacket-necessitating, Brighton afternoon. A small, intimate circle of photo-muso-arty aficionados. And a photo-guru or two. Enter the first Q&A/masterclass thingummyjiggumy with photo president elect, Charlotte “Vote for” Patmore, able vice president, Poppy Marriott, and Queen of all Queen Bees (Izzy Bee of Black Honey). This is laid back, make-it-up-as-you go-along gold. Spontaneous. Informal. Lounging at the feet of the mistresses...
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Sundara Karma rocked in to Liverpool for their biggest headline show to date, fresh off the back of a highly accomplished debut album: you know, the one with long, yet deep, title: Youth Is Only Ever Fun In Retrospect. If that were true then virtually everybody in the sell-out, mainly 14 (12??)-18 year old, O2 Academy crowd must have had a miserable time. When I arrived...
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To see Hidden Charms live is to see an uncontrolled explosion of feral rhythm and blues. Can I get a witness? To see them back where it all began three years ago is even better. The tension built as they toyed with the expectant audience that had gathered at the front of the stage, encouraged by hyped up, adoring members and friends of Liverpool band, Roomerz. ...
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The 20th January, 2017. The day when Donald Trump tricked his way into one of the most powerful jobs on the planet. This Buyers Club gig was the perfect antidote to said man’s poisonous, racist, sexist, anti-human rhetoric. Four quality bands at the start of their careers served up four very different styles in this intimate upstairs Hardman Street, Liverpool, venue. AGP (initials of lead...
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As 2016 races to a close I feel that it is my musical duty to review the best of those tracks that have been the soundtrack to a gigging year of epic proportions. But for my day job feeding 11-16 year old alligators with knowledge I would probably be doing this full time. The last fifty-two weeks have taken me in planes, trains and automobiles from...
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“Manchester, we have no words.” This tweet by the mesmeric Black Honey, following a sell-out show at the Deaf Institute in Manchester last night, says it all. Having seen them five times in the last five months, I am inclined to agree. I am fast losing the ability to put into words what a live Black Honey show is like. Ok let me try: type...
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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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