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Sharon Corr, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.
photograph by Ian D. Hall Originally published by L.S. Media. August 23rd 2011. As one of the members of the multi-selling Irish band The Corrs, Sharon Corr has thrilled her fans with her fantastic...
View ArticleLes McKeown’s Legendary Bay City Rollers. Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.
Originally published by L.S. Media. June 11th 2011. For their legendary fans, The Bay City Rollers were a phenomenon without equal, their unique tartan look and boyish appeal made them every teenage...
View ArticleThe Alarm, Gig Review. O2 Academy, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * * There are homecomings for local heroes and then there are homecomings in which the performers on stage know that even they are from another town, another...
View ArticleFear The Resistance, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * Fear is the mother of Hope, without one you cannot have the other, without them both the world makes as much sense as dumping a lorry load of nettle leafs into...
View ArticleKobra And The Lotus, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * * It’s not every day you find a cobra on stage entertaining a crowd so completely but the difference is that this particular Kobra has got bite. A tempting...
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Republica, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool. October 2014.
Saffron of Republica at the 02 Academy in Liverpool. October 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall. Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * As an outside band to Liverpool, to perform in the city once a...
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The Boomtown Rats, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.
Bob Geldof at the o2 Academy, Liverpool, October 2014. Photgraph by Ian D. Hall. Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * * On a night like this…where the decades are rolled back, when the silent...
View ArticleAnnisokay, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10 The enigmatic smile that growls in the darkness on offer by German band Annisokay throughout their latest album, is nothing compared to the broad all knowing...
View ArticleFearless Vampire Killers, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool. (2015).
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10 When Fearless Vampire Killers last stood on the stage of the Academy in support to Medina Lake in 2013, the sense of the occasion was rife in the air. The...
View ArticleAnthrax, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Birmingham.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * The clock ticks down with strength and purpose as the black clouds of unimpressive rain and chocked down November days hit the Birmingham Streets. The Bristol...
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Michael Schenker’s Temple Of Rock, Gig Review. O2 Academy, Liverpool.
Doogie White from Michael Schenker’s Temple Of Rock at the o2 Academy, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall. Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * * As the sweat of a many a Liverpool rock fan...
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The Alarm, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Newcastle.
The Alarm’s Mike Peters at the 02 Academy, Newcastle, 2016. Photograph by Ian D. Hall. Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10 In troubled times, when the glow of the knife edge seems to radiating...
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The Stranglers, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Newcastle.
Baz Warne of The Stranglers at the Newcastle o2 Academy, March 2016. Photograph by Ian D. Hall. Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10 Not everything in life is Black and White but it must be safe to...
View ArticleJoanne Shaw Taylor, Gig Review. O2 Academy, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10 There is nothing reckless about Joanne Shaw Taylor, wild and as full of tempestuous cosmic storms that erupt from the Sun as it gives into its cycle of moods but...
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