So for this week, I'm talking music (and although I know what I like, I'm not a musician by any stretch of the imagination so apologies in advance if this comes across as "he doesn't know what he's talking about")
When I moved back to Liverpool two years ago I started spending some time on the live music scene and seeing what and who was emerging onto the scene. This year has been a bit of a strange one so it's time I started exploring this side of the city again.
I've been aware of a young guy called Dominic Dunn for a while now, and follow him on Twitter
https://twitter.com/Dominic_Dunn22 - his music, which he writes himself, is very much my taste, but I've never been able to get to any of his gigs. Then last week he released his first video on his youtube site and I was blown away.
He's moved into a new direction with this one, called Keep Them Tight, a homage to the noble sport of boxing. He sings with a noticable scouse accent, which suits his work anyway, but really brings this song to life. Watch, listen and see what you think:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzlBVf_0z5U
By co-incidence after seeing this last weekend and letting him know how good I thought it was, I then bumped into him in The Brink and had a chat which was nice and I promised to catch a gig as soon as I can.
I then saw he was helping to organise a Young Musicians session at The Brink yesterday, I was going to be in town so I headed down. It was the first event so not many people in the audience, but those that were there seemed rightly impressed and hopefully as word spreads the audience figures will improve.
Dominic wasn't performing as he's getting ready for the Liverpool Irish Festival later this month, but first on the stage was https://twitter.com/eleanor_nelly, who was outstanding, singing a selection of covers and her own material - I can't remember what I was doing when I was 13, but it certainly wasn't anything as creative and talented as Eleanor!
Then a four piece band called The Haze https://twitter.com/TheHazeMusicUk - with again a mixture of covers and original material, I'll definately be checking these guys out in the future.
Unfortunately I had to shoot off and so I missed another young guy who've I've only just become aware of, Rosh, https://twitter.com/OfficialRosh who I really wanted to see. I'm not the biggest fan of Grime, but I thought his track "Cemetery Wealth" http://t.co/LEEE5sIfgt was interesting, and it has certainly grown on me over the past week.
So there you go, this is just scratching the surface of what's fresh on the Liverpool music scene at the moment.
Turning to art, the Not Just Collective https://www.facebook.com/NotJustCollective has a new exhibition "Clandestine" opening on 17th October in the Williamson Tunnels
I'm not exhibiting for this one, so it'll make a change to go along and not know what to expect. I'll let you all know about it in my next blog, so until then, take care, and in the words of the Doctor "be fantastic".
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