Music
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Gigs in Liverpool
In Conversation – Dave McTague (Mellowtone)
Liverpool Noise: We are about to celebrate Mellowtone’s 15th Anniversary. How did it all start? Dave McTague: It started as the idea of a night i’d like to go to … an evening of live music, DJs, intimate and interesting venues, laid back vibes, nice people in attendance … and we built from there. I’d had the idea for a while, but when i walked into the View Two Gallery on Mathew Street, I knew…
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Liverpool Music Scene
In Conversation – Steve Roberts
Liverpool Noise: You have reconvened 16 Tambourines to celebrate the up-coming 30th anniversary of the release of the “How Green Is Your Valley?” album. How did this come about? Steve Roberts: We have spoken on and off about doing it for years now but hadn’t managed to get it sorted. Organising bands is difficult and as you get older it becomes more so. We have families, jobs, live in different parts of the country, all…
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Bands in Liverpool
Ukebox Release Track ‘Sing The Hooky Line’
Sing The Hooky Line is the latest showpiece from Ukebox as they add another upbeat, catchy soundbite to their eclectic smorgasbord. The track is early afternoon listening in it’s brightest form as the local act unveil three minutes and three seconds of happiness personified blended into a cocktail of contagious joy. Drink it in ladies and gentlemen. Ukebox as an act are unconventional in the sense that they don’t arm themselves with multiple instruments and…
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Bands in Liverpool
KEEF Release New Track ‘Day In Day Out’
KEEF’s brand new single, Day In Day Out is certainly one that is guaranteed to be on repeat in your head for the rest of the day. The idea of a repeating, blues-like chord progression, coupled with the theme of the song of monotony and the disillusionment of everyday life, hammers home the message both lyrically and rhythmically. With nods in their latest single to their psycadelic and alternative roots and influences spanning across the Northwest, this was…
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Bands in Liverpool
Live Music Thursdays Launching At Constellations
Constellations has announced their 2019 Live Music Thursdays programme in collaboration with Liverpool “bass connoisseurs”, Rubber Dub. Incorporating funk, punk, hip-hop, jazz and psychedelia into a reggae and dub foundation, Rubber Dub are one of the most exciting and innovative bands to come out of the North West in the past few years. Such is their popularity, they have already played a number of high-profile events and festivals across the UK and continue to garner…
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Bands in Liverpool
Sound City 2020 Reveals First Wave of Acts for Festival
Sound City, the UK’s leading independent festival and industry conference for emerging music, arts and discovery, returns for its 13th year across Friday May 1st – Sunday 3rd 2020 to launch next year’s festival season in fine style. Tickets go on sale from 10am Friday 25th October. The festival has revealed its first headline artists, the goth-pop champions Pale Waves taking centre stage with their female front-woman, Heather Baron-Gracie, and their music emboldened from last…
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Music
In Conversation – This Island
We spoke to Rachael from This Island about the “Into Stars” EP, the Liverpool Music Scene and where This Island fit into it… Liverpool Noise: ‘This Island” seems to have arrived out of nowhere. What is the background to the band, and what are your musical philosophies? Rachael: Philosophy? Song, melody, harmony, song, melody, harmony, song, melody harmony…and repeat…what better way is there to connect with an audience? Any audience, anywhere. LN: The “Into Stars”…
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Liverpool Events
Liverpool Record Shop To Launch Pop-Up ‘Dig At The Dock’ At The Royal Albert Dock
One of Liverpool’s most loved independent record stores, Dig Vinyl, is launching a six-month pop-up at the Royal Albert Dock Liverpool on Monday 28th October. Dig at the Dock will be much more than a replica of its Bold Street store, adding something completely new to the growing mix of independent retailers at the Dock with a collection of new and vintage stock, for music fans of all ages. Founded by music enthusiasts, Anthony Nyland…
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Bands in Liverpool
The Cheap Thrills ‘Vue du Monde’ EP Review
The Cheap Thrills Vue Du Monde EP has got Jamie Hankin extremely excited and here’s why.… Shout it from the steps of St Georges Hall and bellow it from the roof of the Liver Buildings. The Cheap Thrills are back with a six song EP to cement their place and rightful standing alongside all of your local music mainstays. Vue du Monde is 20 minutes & 26 seconds of fist pumping pride and youthful exuberance.…
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Liverpool Music Scene
Mutant Vinyl – Live at Studio 2
Flush from his success of his debut album, the sublime “Daffodils In Angell Town” the gig-machine that is Edwin Pope aka “Mutant Vinyl” bestrode the stage like a prize fighter, a musical Raging Bull. The Mutant Vinyl live show is very much about the sonic experience, with beats drenching he atmosphere, lyrics sharpened to a political point, and virtuoso sax playing from the man himself. In fact, it’s pretty exhausting for all concerned, as the…
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Bands in Liverpool
SPINN Acoustic EP Review
Ahead of a headline show at the 02 Academy on 6th December, SPINN present a four-track acoustic EP where they strip back and rewire a few of their fan favourites. Popular tracks Who You Are, Is There Something That I Missed & Foundations are the selected few to be revamped alongside a cover of the Lana Del Rey hit Video Games as the Liverpool band present themselves in a new light. First in the chair…
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Bands in Liverpool
Pleasure Island ‘The Game’ Single Review
The Oxford dictionary describes a relaunch as “the act of starting or presenting something again in a new or different way”. Pleasure Island is Sean Ekins and his entourage’s latest project for their next assault on the Rock’n’roll scene as they unveil a new single previewed on SoundCloud. We often hear of artists who inform of the trials and tribulations of their path to the spotlight, yet the background story of Sean Ekins and his…
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Liverpool Music Scene
In Conversation – Daisy Gill
We recently caught up with Liverpool Singer – Songwriter and actress Daisy Gill, and got an insight into her new single release “Twisted Lies & Lullabies”, her musical inspirations and her joy at playing at the recent Liverpool Pride celebrations… Liverpool Noise: You have just dropped the excellent track “Twisted Lies & Lullabies”. How did it come about? What’s the story behind the composition and recording process? Daisy Gill: Thank you! I wrote “Twisted Lies…
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Bands in Liverpool
Damien O’Kane and Ron Block At The Philharmonic: Review
Damien O’Kane and Ron Block live at The Philharmonic Music Room, 24.09.19. The Philharmonic Music Room is perhaps the most civilised and well thought out venue of it’s size in the city. The temporary dividing wall separating the stage area from the bar provides a comfortable place to wait before “doors.” Whilst gig goers at venues such as The Zanzibar and The O2 Academy have to queue outside here you can get a drink and…
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Bands in Liverpool
In Conversation – Pleasure Island
We talked to Pleasure Island frontman, Sean Ekins about his new project and an eventful career starting out in Australia… Liverpool Noise:Hi Sean, we’ve heard your debut single The Game and it’s a really energetic, lively track with some stand out lyrics. Would you say the single is a good marker for what we can expect from Pleasure Island? Yeah we’re hoping we can write a few more like that one. It’s a lot of…
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Music
Gen and The Degenerates Release Must-Listen Tracks Cocaine/Yoko Oh No
Gen and The Degenerates are back with a double release that has already caused a stir before it’s arrival on our playlists. Quite some feat you must say. The no-nonsense North West rockers released a thirty second promo video of their new tracks which the law suits at Facebook HQ deemed inappropriate for it’s “sexual content” causing a backlash from their army of adorers. Now we are provided with 12 minutes and 2 seconds in…
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Music
In Conversation – Billy Kelly
Billy Kelly is the driving force behind WWK Unsigned, his radio show that has an eclectic playlist, a love of a boss tune and a champion of local music. We arranged to meet at a local hostelry to discuss how he started broadcasting, new ventures, the merits and brilliance of Pete Wylie and Deaf School, and his allegiance to The Beatles… Liverpool Noise: What is your background in the local music scene and when did…
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Music
Tarek Musa – In Conversation
Former Spring King frontman Tarek Musa talks to Liverpool Noise about his latest music project, Dead Nature, as well as discussing what it’s like working from his Liverpool-based studio as a producer for some promising up-and-coming bands. Liverpool Noise: So Tarek, firstly thanks for your time we understand it’s a pretty busy and exciting time ahead for you at the moment, are you managing the find the balance between promoting, producing and getting some time…
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Gigs in Liverpool
Damien O’Kane and Ron Block Gig Preview
To the uninitiated a banjo is a banjo. Due to its absence from most contemporary and so called “radio-friendly” music the public at large are not as familiar with it as they would be with it’s six stringed relative. However, if one album was likely to remedy this situation it is Damien O’Kane and Ron Block’s 2018 platter “Banjophony.” Messrs O’Kane and Block have quite a pedigree. Coleraine born O’Kane has more than one acclaimed…
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Bands in Liverpool
Future Yard Festival Review
It’s all over to Birkenhead this weekend as we celebrate for the first time the beauty of Future Yard Festival. Tucked away next to the mouth of the Queensway Tunnel is a corner of land that looks out over to Liverpool on one side and North Wales on the other, home to some serious musical talent and of course not forgetting the late John Peel. Jumping off at Hamilton Square it’s a short walk over…
