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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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“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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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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Interview
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 have two observations for you. Let’s face it, most people who visit the Louvre museum in Paris have only one thing in mind. They want to see that picture of the world’s first semi-smiling Emo. I’m not talking here about art/art history students but about Mr Joe Public wanting to tick off his Bucket list that he has seen the Mona Lisa smile. Likewise,...
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Going to this gig was one of those last minute decisions that you don’t regret. The Loft in the Arts Club on Seel Street in Liverpool is one of those venues where the whole audience can stand just a few metres from the stage, in the thick of the action as it were. I arrived ridiculously early, just in time to see the Spitfires whisked...
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