February 2012
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Review: Django Django
Django Django/Loved Ones/Johnny Sands @ Shipping Forecast - 21.02.12
(Django Django)
After an up and down few days, I was looking forward to seeing Django Django and especially happy to have a ticket considering tonight’s gig (and the rest of their tour) sold out. Following a successful appearance at Sound City 2011 and a great support slot for Metronomy last September in the Kazimier,...
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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...
