Articles...
Feb 13 2008
GABRIELLE had cancelled pre-tour interviews. It was not like her. She also cancelled the second batch because she was feeling under the weather....
Feb 12 2008
KODO, which can simply mean "children of the drum" in Japanese, is a 14-strong troupe of percussionists who like to tour the globe promoting peace and harmony through the medium of making a massive, dramatic noise....
Feb 11 2008
IT’S been a frantic fortnight for seeing divas here on Merseyside. First Barbara Dickson with her slick mix of the traditional and contemporary....
Feb 11 2008
IT WAS a marriage made in heaven – the emotive songs Burt Bacharach and Hal David channelled through Dionne Warwick, whose versatile voice could swing from delicate to powerful with seemingly consummate ease....
Feb 6 2008
THE last time we came to play in Wirral, “we were in a tram shed,” said Nicholas Ward, leader and music director of the Northern Chamber Orchestra....
Feb 5 2008
‘I’M SO happy to be on the road again and in dear Liverpool,” said a smiling Barbara Dickson last night....
Feb 5 2008
THE Pale Fountains where one of those early 80s Liverpool bands that, despite doing some great music (releasing two albums on Virgin), just never achieved the success they deserved....
Feb 4 2008
THE thinking behind the new Two Rivers Festival is brave, to say the least....
Jan 31 2008
THERE are some of us who remember those ghastly “music appreciation” classes of old....
Jan 28 2008
WHEN the fabled Moving Hearts outfit reformed last year, albeit with only some of its original 1980s line-up, the reception in Dublin was so ecstatic that it persua-ded original founders such as Donal Lunny and Davy Spillane to try a couple of UK gigs....
