Like beards? Got a beard? Want to stroke a beard? On Saturday September 6th, Liverpool’s favorite Beard and Moustache Contest is back for a third time, offering BEER & RESPECT to winners! BeerdFest is made up of three things: beards, beer and music! This time around they’ve got a fantastic…
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If you’ve ever wondered what the lovechild of Dave Grohl’s vocals, Alex Turner’s lyrics and the Traveling Wilburys’ instruments would sound like look no further. I don’t know how we’d make this musical 3-way work but Victorian Dad, apparently, do. I feel bad comparing them to other bands because it’s…
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How do you like it? Rough and dirty or slow and smooth? Like sex people want their music many different ways depending on what mood they are in or how many shandy’s they have had. It was only yesterday that whilst making a cup of tea I screamed ‘For the…
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Little Jo & The Misfits are a varied band that seem to have slunk right out of the 20s, cheap liquor in hand. Their songs all seem to be some variant of blues, although never melancholic, which is refreshing as their songs never bring you down, just lift you up,…
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If you listen to something so much and very often it can become one big massive something made of nothing. In this instance I refer to music. It leaves you digging deeper to find something different rather than listening to the massive something over and over again. I hope that…
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The dust has settled on Sound City 2014, so we thought we would slap up our last installment of our Sound City 2014 review trilogy. In this year’s Sound City festival 2014, whipping up a buzz of musical excitement and urban commonality in the streets of Liverpool in early May,…
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Fully recovered from my exploits at Sound City 2014 (the cut has healed and scab has fallen off) it was high time I got back to the reason this website was created, listening to hot off the press music from Liverpool bands creating original music. A few things made me…
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Countless times and on numerous websites I find myself penning the same thoughts, that being a music reviewer is all about opinion. I hold no God-like reverence and a divine message that the waiting masses will adhere to, no it’s just my opinion on the music I am fortunate to…
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There is something great about running an independent music blog/website#callitwhatyouwant. We can pick and choose who we want to go and write about. We have no obligations to go and review the headline acts; there is no hierarchy to appease. We are indeed a free spirit and long may it remain.…
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Day 2 at Sound City, what was waiting for me? Before I start, those with a keen eye will have noticed we don’t have a ‘Day 1’ up on the website as yet, I can assure all you Day 1 people (they are real I have seen them) that we…
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