Reviews
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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Photography
Interview
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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Reviews
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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Reviews
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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Reviews / Wild Life
Help! Is anybody there? Mothership? Please help! My name is Jerry. I’m a greater flamingo and I have been birdnapped by some bandidos called Black Honey. My four captors are the hairiest beasts I’ve seen this side of the Rift Valley. They keep me locked in a case in the back of a van, unable to breathe. They’re forever moving round, to avoid capture, like...
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Reviews
Firstly a brief, pre-ramble preface free from prejudice. I need to say this, but each time I have checked recently nothing has changed. I am still male through and through. These, therefore, are the views of a thoroughly male man who is not a woman and has no plans to become one. I do, however, have a deep-seated appreciation for women, and especially for...
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