{"id":25299,"date":"2023-05-28T05:30:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T09:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=25299"},"modified":"2023-05-16T11:15:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:15:44","slug":"preview-ipo-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/28\/preview-ipo-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: IPO Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bit of a personal note today. I have the extreme pleasure and honor of being the keyboardist in the Steve Stoeckel Band. Stoeckel, of course, is the bassist (and one of three songwriters) in the Spongetones. After his many albums with that group, several with band mate Jamie Hoover (billed as Jamie and Steve) and with his Pop Co-op project, Stoeckel finally got \u2018round to making a solo album. And it\u2019s a corker. The album was recorded at home, mostly solo and with other players\u2019 parts flown in (it was the pandemic era, after all).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25300\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ipo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ipo.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ipo-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ipo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>When the organizers of the International Pop Overthrow festival series caught wind of the album <i>The Power of And<\/i>, they invited Stoeckel to perform at the Liverpool date. He said yes, but then there was the matter of assembling a band.<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, I am a longtime friend of Steve\u2019s, and an even longer-time keyboardist and vocalist. I don\u2019t write music; I play other peoples\u2019 music, whether they\u2019re covers or songs by the leader of a band in which I find myself. I offered up my services for these gigs (at the world-famous Cavern Club; perhaps you\u2019ve heard of it) and so off I go. In fact, off I went; the gigs are during what we in the US call the week of Memorial Day week (in England it\u2019s the week of Spring Bank Holiday.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re there, come see us.<\/p>\n<p>But hey: I\u2019ll also be at the festival in my role as a music journalist, and as a serious admirer of several of the other artists on the bill. I hope to catch as many as possible live onstage and\/or in conversation. These are my favorite; all are highly recommended as well. Hot links to my writing (reviews, sometimes features) about \u2018em, too.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/17\/hundred-word-reviews-for-april-2022-part-1\/\">Cheap Star<\/a> 28 May 4:30pm \u2013 Cavern Pub; 29 May 3:15pm \u2013 Cavern Club<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/08\/album-review-dave-rave-live-with-what-you-know\/\">Dave Rave<\/a> 28 May 11:15pm \u2013 Cavern Pub; 30 May 12:15am \u2013 Cavern Club<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/09\/new-music-review-roundup-part-1\/\">Captain Wilberforce<\/a> 30 May 11:15pm \u2013 Cavern Club; 30 May 10:30pm \u2013 Cavern Pub<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?s=stoeckel\">Steve Stoeckel<\/a> 31 May 9:15pm \u2013 Cavern Club; 1 June 5:15pm \u2013 Cavern Pub<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?s=spygenius\">Spygenius<\/a> 31 May 10pm \u2013 Cavern Club; 1 June 10:30pm \u2013 Cavern Pub<\/li>\n<li>The Len Price 3 2 June 5:15pm \u2013 Cavern Pub; 2 June 10pm \u2013 Cavern Club<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?s=%22amoeba+teen%22\">Amoeba Teen<\/a> 2 June 7:45pm Cavern Club; 2 June 10:30pm \u2013 Cavern Pub<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/14\/hundred-word-reviews-may-2023-part-3\/\">Paul McCann<\/a> 2 June 12:45pm \u2013 Cavern Pub; 2 June 4:45pm \u2013 Cavern Club<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/tag\/fernando-perdomo\/\">Fernando Perdomo<\/a> 3 June 2:15pm \u2013 Cavern Pub; 4 June 1pm \u2013 Cavern Club<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/23\/hundred-word-reviews-february-2023-part-four\/\">Ex-Norwegian<\/a> 3 June 12am \u2013 Cavern Pub; 4 June 3:15pm \u2013 Cavern Club<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/tag\/nick-frater\/\">Nick Frater<\/a> 3 June 10:45pm \u2013 Cavern Club; 4 June 6pm \u2013 Cavern Pub<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/tag\/lannie-flowers\/\">Lannie Flowers<\/a> 3 June 11:30pm \u2013 Cavern Club; 4 June 7:30pm \u2013 Cavern Pub<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalpopoverthrow.com\/schedules\/ipo-2023-schedules\/liverpool-2023\/\">Check schedule here<\/a> for late-breaking changes of in case I got any days\/times wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bit of a personal note today. I have the extreme pleasure and honor of being the keyboardist in the Steve Stoeckel Band. 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