And it don’t mean shit if you haven’t got the chops and the songs. They wear tight Fred Perry polos, lead singer Grant Judges dons a Specials-era porkpie hat, back-up singer Sam Judges in a dynamite modette skirt.
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This six-piece mod band from South London knows who they are and wrings a ton out of it. The Aim distinguishes itself not so much with innovation or instrumentation but instead puts to use the oldest tools in the rock n roll arsenal - energy and joy. There’s only so far you can drive outside the lanes of power chords and harmonies before it’s no longer power pop. When a festival has a musical genre theme-jazz, blues, power pop-it’s hard to stand out. They feel a solemn duty to rock with particular spirit here on this hallowed musical ground.Īt every IPO, there’s one act that rises above. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper.Īnd that’s why IPO Liverpool is so special.įirst, its curators David Bash and Rina Bardfield (the husband-wife team who I witnessed get engaged a couple years ago on stage at the Cavern Club before I myself got engaged during IPO Liverpool a year later) do such a good job of selecting power pop acts from all over the globe. But I will say that the thrill of taking the stage there at 10 Mathew Street-where Brian Epstein first set eyes on The Beatles at one of their 292 performances from 1961-1963-retains every bit of the electrifying magic that has drawn me to fly 6 hours to be part of it.
I cannot be perfectly objective in reviewing a festival in which I myself have not only performed but that I just plain dig so much. This is my third straight year playing at The Cavern Club as part of the IPO Festival. LIVERPOOL, UK-If it’s May in Liverpool, you can count on two things: Jürgen Klopp will have coached The Reds into the finals and the International Pop Overthrow Festival will be crushing it at The Cavern.
The Aim from South London were the breakout act of 2019’s IPO Liverpool, which ran for 8 days at the Cavern Club.
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