Track Listing

1. Electify
2. Paradise
3. Everyday Folk
4. Small Farm
5. TNT
6. Songbird
7. Mariner
8. Happening for Love
9. Change for Tomorrow
10. Viva
11. Island

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51255 in Music
• Released on: 2003-06-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

Wow!!! Why was this not better publicised?
This album is the first solo work of Cast's main man, John Power. This is the best album to come out of Merseyside since Sgt. Pepper it has been said. This Beatles fan would beg to differ but I admit it's a very close call. Power truly is one of the 21st century's best songwriters. The album is a classic to be. I wonder why is was not advertised or hyped up but I guess the answer is that it doesn't need it.

John Power - Happening For Love
John Power returns two years after the release of BeetRoot and then the subsequent break up of scouse quartet Cast. Beetroot was a disappointing end to such a great band but the power of John is on show once again in this superb solo effort.

The album kicks off with a very cast-esque 'Electrify' wonderful acoustic licks are the core of this album.'Small Farm' is another similar tune - Power going back in time to find the sound which brought him success in multi platinum selling outfit Cast. The stand-out track for me is 'Mariner' - no surprise a Liverpudlian singer writing about the sea - another winning formula in this amazing track. The title track 'Happening for Love' is an edgier effort a bit more rock which sounds sensational.

All round a superb album a must for scouse scene fans or fans of Cast. Do buy it!

4 Stars - ****

Long awaited....but worth it
I'm saving my 5 stars for a live recording of Power's Kashmir Club gig, should such a thing ever be released. Listening to a crackly recording of the gig, which featured old favourites alongside new material, I felt Power had reached the absolute peak of his formidable vocal and songwriting abilities. Beautiful, wistful, winsome and starry - Power as prince in a musical kingdom of his own creation. Several of the new songs reappear on "Happening For Love", but they're slickened with full band production, and Power's voice seems to have crumpled a little, as if the album were recorded during the ravages of flu. In particular, the funky, shouty album version of 'TNT' seems overstated compared with the more subtle, Neil Young-esque live performance. And no appearance yet of stunning songs like 'All My Days' or 'Black & White Rainbows'.

Still, 'Happening For Love' feels fresh and loose, with its minimalist structures and red-raw guitars, and will win favour with anyone not threatened and battered into compliance with the Journalistic Alliance of Cast Haters, or whatever that bunch of nutjobs call themselves. In particular, the last three songs are a pristine finish - melancholic, sharp, rich and colourful.