February 2012
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Review: Spector @ Kazimier!!
Kazimer - 22.02.12
Atop the balcony looking down on the ever increasing dancefloor, I could sense the eagerness to hear the alternate rock band Spector play their first gig in the Kazimer, Liverpool. Hearing some positive word of mouths reviews and listening their single ‘Chevy Thunder’, I was a part of the eagerness. I was interested to see what else they could bring to the...
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Review: Threshold Festival (part 3) - Sunday!...
(Image of a previous panel from our friends at The Double Negative. That’s me with the green hat. #famous)
This is basically just a follow up with my views from my contribution on the Threshold Festival’s Industry Panel last Sunday (12.02.12) where I joined Rich Pontefrat (Another Media/Calm), Philip Hayes (The Picket), Gemma Smith (Snub Fest) and Mo Maghazachi (Aurora Media) to...
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Review: Threshold Festival (part 3) - Sunday!...
(Image: Organ Freeman by Matt Thomas)
This is a really short review down to the fact I was on the ‘Culture of Capital’ panel talking about venue closures (Sunday: Part 2) so I missed the days action. PLUS! It was my girlfriends actual birthday (not the party I had to rush home to on the Saturday) where I had to have a meal with her family for the first time. Little muso me with the...
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Review: Threshold Part 2 - Saturday
14:30 - Chelcee Grimes
The day started early on the Liverpool Live stage with local hip hop gal Chelcee Grimes and a crowd of her adoring fans. One of which showing off her newChelcee tattoo!! That’s how much of an impact this girl is having on her scene. I always say I’m not particularly a fan but you can’t deny this girl has got a voice. A lot of her songs reflect life and...
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Review: Threshold Festival! (Part 1 - Friday)
@ Baltic Triangle - 10.02.12
22.15 Minion TV
Even as I was picking up my passes I could hear Minion TV in the next room. They were producing their own crafted sound which has become so familiar to me over the last few months. It was the Blade Factory stage that they were on and they provided the perfect background to my meet and greets but once I was done with that they started mysteriously...
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Review: James Vincent McMorrow
@ Kazimier 08.02.12
(Image: James Vincent McMorrow)
I heard about this guy around a month before the gig. I was just going through a few of his videos on YouTube after seeing him on February’s listings and as soon as I heard ‘Higher Love’ seep out my knackered Toshiba laptop speakers I was sold. This was a night I was going to brave the cold to see. The heating was broke...
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Spector @ The Kazimier - 22.02.12
Evol Presents…
Upstarts from the big smoke have begun to seize their reign of terror with second single “Chevy Thunder” hitting the shops this week, debut album follows and 2012’s rapid ascendency will see the band break through the clouds and into the stratosphere, another Kazimier show that will go down in local folklore when we all look back in 20 years, with support from David’s...
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THE WAR ON DRUGS @ The Kazimier 23.02.12
HARVEST SUN PROMOTIONS & LMW presents…
A new genre of music has been created. It’s called ‘Perfection’. The creators, The War On Drugs, are bringing this ‘Perfection’ to our town of Liverpool via the medium of Harvest Sun and LMW presents at everyone’s favourite Kazimier.
Think of classic rock, think of classic blues, think of them combined...
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Review: We Were Promised Jetpacks
Support from Evelyn.Is/Fieldhouse @ The Shipping Forecast 7/2/2012
(Image: We Were Promised Jetpacks by DearScotland)
On arrival to the Shipping Forecast’s basement venue there seemed to be a mellow electronica track playing softly over the sound system. I slunk about the place for an embarrassingly long time before somebody pointed out what I thought was a drum technician tinkering with some...
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Review: Liverpool Bands Showcase night...
Limehawk/The Fall of Kings/The James Whitehouse Band @ Another Place, South Rd, Waterloo. 04/02/12
(Image: Limehawk by Alan Jones)
The music scene in Liverpool is dead. It has taken a steep nosedive into a deep, watery filled ravine and never came back up for air. What was, once the beaming kindergarten where you would have been proud to cut your teeth as a budding musician and put on your...
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SNUB II – Alternative/Indie (White Heat, The...
SNUB II @ Lomax - 03.02.12
(Image: The Temps)
The second outing of the wittily-named “Snub Fest” was always going to be a contentious one. Entirely run by, promoted by and ultimately championed by former Masque promoter Gemma Smith, the three-night festival was either going to sink or swim. Luckily, the acts that performed on its penultimate night were the equivalent of your Michael Phelps...
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Preview: Evol Presents...
17.03.2012 | WILD BEASTS
Support TBA. @ O2 Academy Liverpool, 11-13 Hotham Street, L3 5UF
A band that have been with us all the way, back in 2006 after releasing “Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants” on Bad Sneakers the band came down to Korova to play Evol, they were subsequently signed by Domino Records. When their debut “Limbo, Panto” was dropped the band were back in Liverpool...
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Preview: Harvest Sun & LMW Presents...
High Places - 14th February @ Shipping Forecast
New York conquering and LA living duo, High Places, are on their way to Liverpool courtesy of Harvest Sun promotions with the intent to melodically and atmospherically take you away in to electronic euphoria. With a well travelled sound it’s not surprising to hear that this pair have been cross continent playing their sounds; all in the...
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SNUB II: Rock
@ The Lomax, Liverpool – Always The Quiet Ones, Guardians, We Were Beautiful, Arkaidence & The Blackhand
(Image: Always the Quiet Ones by Dan Bentley)
It seems that 2012 is going to be simultaneously the most difficult and the most important year for the local rock scene for a long time. On the one hand, Mojo has brought an abrupt and unjustified end to its usage as a live venue and we’ve...
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Preview: Evol Presents...
08.02.12 | JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW
@ The Kazimier, 4-5 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool, L1 4JJ
Irish Lo-Fi folk Singer James Vincent McMorrow returns to Liverpool to headline at The Kazimier this February. We must warn you, this show is already well on the way to selling out so bust your ass to get tickets now…
** Please Note All Masque Tickets Remain 100% Valid **
Doors 7pm - 11pm...
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Interview: BIRD - Post Phantoms Catch Up
(Image: Brian Roberts Photography)
I spoke to Adele Emmas, the uniquely talented lead singer of Liverpool band Bird about her influences, 2012, their EP, gigs, tours, possible collaborations and favourite songs. Bird formed over a year ago when Adele was joined by Mick Dolan (guitar), Keith Thompson (guitar), Ste Parratt (bass) and Alexis Samata (drums). They have played numerous shows around...
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Review: Version Excursion - We, The Undersigned |...
@ Mello Mello - 27.01.12 - We, The Undersigned | The Fire Beneath the Sea | The River Niger Orchestra
The dreary image of moody white kids with guitars is so inherently attached to inner city live music that Rebelsoul and Audio Voyeurs’s night of African and Jamaican tunes proved too much to resist. Just as refreshing was the eclectic mix of faces in the crowd that night; rather than just the...
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Preview: EVOL Presents...
07.02.2012 | WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS
Supports TBA @ The Shipping Forecast, 15 Slater Street, Liverpool, L1 4BW
One of our old favourites from Scotland return to Liverpool after a 3 year absence, the bands last show here being at the ill fated second Korova… however, they’ve been very busy with second album “In The Pit Of The Studio” and have just announced a slot at one of the world’s...
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The Albany Live @ The Zanzibar 21/01/2012
The Albany Live @ The Zanzibar 21/01/2012
The setting is a crowded Zanzibar in Liverpool City Centre, the home of the last burst of great Scouse bands such as The Zutons, The Coral, The Bandits and The Stands, who were dubbed the Cosmic Scouse Movement, amongst the crowd at the Zanzibar, are folk of all ages out supporting their friends and loved ones, cans of Red Stripe decorating the floors,...
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Preview: LAZY GENIUS in asc with Chemistry Set...
06.02.12 @ The Shipping Forecast
In association with Chemistry Set, club LAZY GENIUS is very excited to bring you DISCOPOLIS, Edinburgh’s brilliant electro 3 piece…. DISCOPOLIS - www.facebook.com/ discopolismusic “If there’s one new band setting the heather alight in Scotland this year, it’s Discopolis.” - NME “They are the absolute triumph of this year’s T Break, the epitome...
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Community Thoughts On Local Music Press
I thought rather than giving another editor’s opinion on the local scene I would take a step back and once again post what you guys have been saying. The Liverpool Band’s facebook page, created and ran by Tony Donaghey and co-admined by myself, is in my eyes Liverpool’s online social music community hub. Every once in a while debate like this is sparked. The problem is not...
January 2012
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Preview: Tighten Up! – Tropical Warehouse Party
SATURDAY FEB 4TH | THE BLADE FACTORY
Tighten Up! are teaming up with the folks from everisland & Waxxx to bring you a taste of island paradise for your Saturday night!
Converting a warehouse into a tropical haven, attendees will be treated to an evening of exotic visuals with music from the Caribbean, Africa & Latin America. Live music includes sets from White Bicycles (tropical pop)...
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Review: SICK CIRCUS + Sugarking
SICK CIRCUS + Sugarking @ Krazyhouse Liverpool – 20th January 2012
It’d be ridiculous to say that Liverpool has a “bubbling undercurrent” (whatever that is) of retro rock bands circulating the city. These two bands are out almost completely on their own, trying to find their place in a scene that…doesn’t really exist anymore. The more cynically-minded might decry their efforts, and it’s...
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Preview: Harvest Sun Promotions presents... LINDI...
7.30pm, Wednesday 1 February upstairs @ Leaf Bold Street.
Somewhere in an old 1960’s apartment building in the city of Toronto, Canada, a well worn pair of cherry red cowboy boots wait by the door. About a half foot from those boots sits a guitar case, brightly decorated with glittery stars and images of Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo… A little down the hallway and towards the bedroom, a...
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Liverpool GIT Award Panel Announced Today!
NME is coming to town…
This may have slipped under your radar until recently but Peter Guy of the GetInToThis music blog has used a dash of his creativity along with a sprinkle of his entreprenueralism to bring our city what it has needed for a long time. The Liverpool GIT Music Award…
Finally we can showcase our finest an award the talented people in the city with an award that...
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Preview: EVOL Presents...
03.02.12 | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah @ O2 Academy Liverpool
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03.02.12 | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah @ O2 Academy
Delighted to announce a fantastic show for next year from one of our favourites… Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Tickets £12.50 on sale Friday 14th October at 9am Via
Ticketweb | HMVTickets | Seetickets
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Lazy Genius - "It’s the end of an era... but these...
Interview: Tom Johnson of Lazy Genius
(Everyone’s favourite G. Lazy Genius)
Live music at Mojo. It just sounds right doesn’t it? Well not according to the big boys at the top of the chain. For years Mojo was the place were unsigned bands and artists got to play on the same stage as many big touring artists. Artists such as Miles Kane, Frankie and the Heartstrings and Three Trapped...
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Review: RAGZ - You Started It All
If you took an imaginary knife and cut Liverpool’s student body in half, you’d find a surprisingly large part of it is Irish and Norwegian. The Gaelic part can be explained away by this town’s ethnic and spiritual connection with the emerald isle, not to mention our similar drinking habits, but the Norwegian section is less obvious…
Firstly, Liverpool was a home from home for a lot of...
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Preview: This is SNUB round DEUX.
2nd, 3rd & 5th of February @ Lomax
Let’s stop the fighting amongst the bands. Let’s unite and bring camaraderie to the arts scene instead of bands fighting amongst …themselves for a mediocre slot not even their mothers can be bothered to get out of bed for. And let’s face it, if you wanted to take part in a voting system, you’d have auditioned for X-Factor… With the sad closure...
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Review: Harvest Sun Presents... Lanterns on the...
19/01/12 @ Static Gallery
“Last time I saw Lanterns on the Lake”, explains a self-confessed groupie in the Static Gallery bar, “they were supposed to be playing the bombed-out church, but they had to shift them to the O2 Academy when the wind got up. There was a rock band on upstairs and it just ruined the performance.”
A bit harsh on the rock band, we feel, but you’d really have to see...
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Preview: Harvest Sun Presents...
Preview: Josh Rouse and the Long Vacation Shows
26 January @ The Black-E (Great George Street) , 7.30pm
Album Review:
The Past. The Present. The Future. This record is in some ways unique. One that bridges both history, and what is to come. All highlighted in a musical collection that also reflects the current day, and the here and now for the artist. This is the world of Josh Rouse...
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Track Reviews: Audio Asylum
Audio Asylum are an indie rock four piece best served live. They are among the most talented and nicest guys on the unsigned circuit right now. With members of former ‘Silk Pigs’ fame (I hope the guys don’t mind me dropping that in there) their current formation is a treat to behold on stage, with dynamic songs that are full of energy, my question is: does this...
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Review: EverIsland Presents... 'THIRTEEN'
capac / Sun Drums / Loved Ones / The Hive Collective / John McGrath / Absense / Joe Pettersen / Jonny Davis @ Kazimier - 13.01.12
Everisland’s ‘13’ at the Kazimier. Friday the 13th. It’s unlucky for some and so I was running late most of the day due to a Merseyrail power outage, but luckily so were Ever Island’s ‘13’ festivities. I thankfully made it to the Kazimier well in time to catch the...
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Interview: Metro Manilla Aide - COMEBACK
My my my. Metro Manilla Aide (MMA). Where do I start? Well some (a lot) of you will remember these guys back in the day. Over 600 gigs, hardcore performances and a fan base that were just as insane as the band themselves! Then the worst happened, they split. I don’t know about you but Liverpool wasn’t the same without a poster as big a children branded with their name on every...
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Mojo - Music For The People
I’m sure the news of Mojo’s decision to pull live music has reached you by now but I would just like to go over a few things. This article is about larger venues…
The scene is getting smaller by the second with continuous closures cropping up around the city. Now as with all things, this has it’s pros and cons but as the pros take time to kick it’s hard not to...
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Artist Spotlight: Natalie McCool - Fortune
“McCool has that extra something that makes her a cut above even her most talented peers” … Chris Hawkins, BBC Radio 6 Music. A look at local star and LIPA student, Natalie McCool.
It’s a rare treat from the pop world to produce an artist whose music has such uniqueness and honesty. A blend of dynamic vocals and unforgettable hooks, Natalie delivers songs bursting with...
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Preview: Harvest Sun Present… Lanterns On The Lake @ Static - 19.01.12
Fuse the most fragile and graceful end of the folk music spectrum to the most luminous properties of cinemascope rock, and you have the stunning debut album from Newcastle-based sextet Lanterns On The Lake. Following two rapturously received EPs, Gracious Tide, Take Me Home warrants the use of often over-played...
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Interview: EverIsland Presents...
This interview nearly didn’t happen! Here’s what the plan was. Meet up with the EverIsland guys, Sam and Clarry, at Mello Mello. Simples. A sit down with Liverpool’s newest and freshest promoters sounded right up my street and where better to see them than where thier recent jam packed Muto Leo gig took place?
Got there, Mello was shut. It’s a long story so I’ll...
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Interview: Raw City - Soundtrack To A Good Night
It is Friday 23rd December and The Head of Steam has reason to celebrate. There is a cause for celebration not just because it is Christmas weekend but also because 4 piece band Raw City are playing their last gig of 2011…
For the Bromborough based band, made up of Phil Moore (Vocalist), Craig Ebbrell (bass), Jack Turner (guitar) and Dave Keenan (Drums), this venue also holds sentimental...
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Interview: Ninetails
City hard hitters, Ninetails have been fingering (in the musical sense) their way up the local food chain of recent to become one of the city’s finest. With spots on good quality line ups and a recent label deal there’s no knowing where these guys will be finding themselves next year…
I first heard of these guys way back when, midway through 2011. I hadn’t heard them...
December 2011
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Review: The Hummingbirds Christmas Show @ The...
15/12/11 @ The Kazimier - The Hummingbirds/Luke Fenlon/The Francis Jetty/The Grande/Ratty Little Fingers
The Kazimier is rapidly becoming THE place to play in Liverpool…… or so it seems. Down to the demise of such other great venues, its setting and acoustics are a great option for upcoming bands and it is great to see a venue such as supporting local unsigned acts as much as it...
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New Release: Being Jo Francis - All That I Want
(Released 23.12.11)
http://soundcloud.com/being-jo-francis/all-that-i-want
All That I Want by Being Jo Francis
New release from local city boys Being Jo Francis, ‘All That I Want’, hit the online shelves just yesterday. Heavy hitting from the start, viscious with vocals and a riff to shake your hair to. What more could you want?
“Being Jo Francis are not your average...
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Review: The Fall Of Kings - Tall Army (EP: Only For The Free)
The first time I listened to this track I wrote down three words, big, catchy and polished. I think that this really says it all about this track.
As soon as the track starts with a cleverly effected guitar feedback you know that this track has not been rushed in the studio and that some time has been taken to get this just...
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How would you improve the Liverpool music scene?...
How would you improve the Liverpool music scene? What do you think we need to boost it? (Click ‘Read More’ to see what people said)
Pete Murphy: Fans. Convincing people to get out the chair and come see some music. Whether thats by ensuring quality control over the quick buck that some venues seem to be going for. I’d love to see the Cavern back in the hands of some...
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Review: Psycho Motel IX 1st Birthday Freakout
09/12/11 @ The Kazimier - Phil Oskoui
DIRTBLONDE/RICKY SPONTANE/LOVECRAFT/POISONED ELECTRICK HEAD
I have been hearing strange things about Psycho Motel for a while now. Legend has it that it was started in the bedroom of one of the lads out of the fabled Zombina (and the Skeletones), the darkly humoured punk band that has been doing the rounds and becoming cult like to all things freakish in...
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EP Review: Cenacle – Immortality Words: Lew Mobey – @itslewmobey
This fantastic fresh 4 piece from St Helens UK are switched on musicians who have a strong musical sound.
With a wide range influences such as Linkin Park to Breaking Benjamin, these boys have built up a local fanbase and have released a well produced EP titled Immortality…
A particuar favourite track of mine is...
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Liverpool's Crumbling Scene: Reader's Views (p1)
Joe Colburn: The scene in liverpool is all up in the air. Most bands are more than happy to just be playing and maybe scoring a coupla free drinks. Other bands want ‘what they’ve earnt’. 9 times out of ten attendance of gigs in liverpool is poor. This is for one reason alone. Venues and bars are taking the piss, so promoters have to step expectations up and spread...
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Review: Bird EP Launch @ Eric's
03/12/12 - Venue: - Erics, Mathew St Bird Official E.P. Launch
- Words: Phil Oskoui
Support from The Fifth Movement/The Edwardian Picnic/Dave Barnicle
Christmas is coming. And the goose is definitely putting the pounds on. Mulled wine, roast chestnuts and log fires. Early nights all snuggled up with your loved one while the harsh winter beats its frostbitten heart outside…
Forget about...