SONGS OF DAMAGE & JOY 2017 – Stalking The Mary Chain.
Richard The Goth, having recovered from his Max Cady style stalking of the world’s greatest band, reveals, from the perspective of a true fan , just what it’s been like to follow the Mary Chain …
Reviews
Reviews of music releases, live shows, and more from the VPME
Review:The Magnetic Fields perform 50 Song Memoir at The Liverpool Philharmonic
Review: The Magnetic Fields perform 50 Song Memoir at The Liverpool Philharmonic By Susie Bennett “How can you tell if a musician slept on your couch? “ Beat … “He’s still there”. So went one …
Preview: The Magnetic Fields at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Preview: The Magnetic Fields at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall By Susie Bennett It isn’t very often that an artist produces a body of work with such a level of depth and quality that you feel called …
Album Of The Month – Juanita Stein – America
Juanita Stein – America It’s hardly a huge surprise to discover that Howling Bells singer songwriter and guitarist Juanita Stein‘s debut solo album has distinct alt- country flavour running throughout. It’s a genre that’s been …
Hope And Glory Festival Liverpool
Hope and Glory Festival have just issued this statement HERE . It appears they have named and blamed everybody else in the world, like, ever. They also seem more concerned about riders and sandwiches going missing? …
Live : Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds: Liverpool Exhibition Centre
Review: Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds: Liverpool Exhibition Centre Words By Susie Bennett / Photography Andy Von Pip The sound of Brian Wilson presenting 1960s Hawthorne California is more than enough to inspire a happy battle …
Liverpool Sound City 2017 – Highlights
UK music festivals can often be a hit and miss affair, this is usually due to the depressingly uncooperative British weather rather than the music (unless it’s the lamentable V- Festival which would be ear-perishingly …
She Drew The Gun – Get It Loud In Libraries – Liverpool 25.03.17
Phil Greenhalgh catches She Drew The Gun at Liverpool Central Library as part of the Get It Loud In Libraries and is blown away by the latest rising star to come from Merseyside. Get it …
The Jesus And Mary Chain – Damage And Joy
If ‘Munki’ was the Jesus And Mary Chain‘s break up album then ‘Damage And Joy’ is the album that finally saw quarrelling brothers William and Jim Reid, bury the hatchet. The album title could be …
Get It Loud In Libraries – Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation – Liverpool 25.02.17
Stewart Parsons has been staging gigs in libraries for ten years under the banner Get It Loud In Libraries, often on a shoestring and certainly at the expense of an ‘easy life.’ But when you …
Independent venue week – Tea Street Band, David Barnicle, Halem, Scarlet – Live Review
Phil Greenhalgh celebrated Independent Music venue week by visiting Liverpool’s Zanzibar club and enjoyed an eclectic bill whilst reflecting on the importance of city centre venues To celebrate Independent venue week Liverpool’s The Tea Street …
Black Grape/Alias Kid O2 Academy Liverpool 17/11/16
Black Grape played Liverpool O2 academy in celebration of the 21st Anniversary of critically acclaimed 1995 album ‘It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah’ – Phil Greenhalgh was there with camera and quill to record the …