Unplugged | Yes |
Cover band | No |
Members | 3 |
Jul / 2021 | • | Joe Symes and the Loving Kind @ Jimmy's, Liverpool | Liverpool | |||
Aug / 2019 | • | Salty Dog | The Salty Dog, Northwich, GB | |||
Jul / 2019 | • | Frodsham on the Hill Festival 2019 | Cheshire | |||
Jun / 2019 | • | Hook and Gun Festival | Wakefield | |||
May / 2019 | • | Cavern Club Back Stage (IPO 2019) | Liverpool | |||
May / 2019 | • | Cavern Club Front Stage (IPO 2019) | Liverpool | |||
Mar / 2019 | • | Shipping Forecast | Liverpool | |||
Feb / 2019 | • | Telford's Warehouse | Chester | |||
Jan / 2019 | • | The Shipping Forecast | Liverpool | |||
Dec / 2018 | • | Marley Mancunia Studios | Manchester | |||
Dec / 2018 | • | The Box | The Box Crewe, Crewe, GB | |||
Nov / 2018 | • | Zanzibar | Liverpool | |||
Nov / 2018 | • | The Underground | Potters Bar Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent, GB | |||
Sep / 2018 | • | Foxlowe Arts Centre | Stoke-on-Trent | |||
Jul / 2018 | • | East Village Arts Club | Liverpool | |||
Jul / 2018 | • | Frodsham on the Hill Festival (supporting Dodgy) | Cheshire | |||
Jun / 2018 | • | Hope and Anchor | London | |||
Jun / 2018 | • | The White Lion | The White Star, Stoke-on-Trent, GB | |||
May / 2018 | • | Cavern Club Front Stage (I.P.O Liverpool 2018) | Liverpool | |||
Apr / 2018 | • | The Salty Dog | The Salty Dog, Northwich, GB | |||
Apr / 2018 | • | Jolly Potters - Your City Festival | Stoke On Trent | |||
Mar / 2018 | • | Peaky Blinders Bar | Liverpool | |||
Nov / 2017 | • | The Freebird | Newcastle-Under-Lyme | |||
Nov / 2017 | • | Charity Event | Liverpool | |||
Nov / 2017 | • | BBC Radio Merseyside 50th Anniversary Celebration | Liverpool | |||
Oct / 2017 | • | The Globe | Glossop | |||
Oct / 2017 | • | The Box | The Box Crewe, Crewe, GB | |||
Oct / 2017 | • | The Salty Dog | The Salty Dog, Northwich, GB | |||
Sep / 2017 | • | Zanzibar | Liverpool | |||
Sep / 2017 | • | The Cinnamon Club | The Cinnamon Club, Altrincham, GB | |||
Sep / 2017 | • | The Buyers Club | Arts Club, Liverpool, GB | |||
Sep / 2017 | • | The Sound House | The Soundhouse Leicester, Leicester, GB | |||
Sep / 2017 | • | The Waterloo Bar | Blackpool | |||
Sep / 2017 | • | RS Bar | Sheffield | |||
Aug / 2017 | • | Folk on the Dock | Liverpool | |||
Aug / 2017 | • | Llandudno Promenade | Llandudno | |||
Aug / 2017 | • | The Box (Mindfest 3) | Crewe | |||
Aug / 2017 | • | Mining Museum | Manchester | |||
Aug / 2017 | • | Fred's Ale House | Manchester | |||
Jul / 2017 | • | Tribute On The Hill Festival | Cheshire | |||
Jul / 2017 | • | De Bees | Winsford | |||
Jul / 2017 | • | Foxy's Lomax | Liverpool | |||
Jul / 2017 | • | Manchester Fundraising Event | Manchester | |||
May / 2017 | • | Concert in the Square | Liverpool | |||
May / 2017 | • | Rock 'n' Roll Marathon | Liverpool | |||
May / 2017 | • | The Cavern Club (back stage) | Liverpool | |||
May / 2017 | • | The Cavern Club (front stage) | Liverpool | |||
May / 2017 | • | HUS | Liverpool | |||
Apr / 2017 | • | Theatr Brycheiniog | Brecon | |||
Apr / 2017 | • | LIPA | Liverpool | |||
Apr / 2017 | • | Zanzibar | Liverpool | |||
Apr / 2017 | • | Theatre Severn (supporting The Christians) | Shrewsbury | |||
Mar / 2017 | • | Spanky Van Dykes | Nottingham | |||
Mar / 2017 | • | Liverpool Institute For Performing Arts (LIPA) | Liverpool | |||
Mar / 2017 | • | HUS | Liverpool | |||
Feb / 2017 | • | The E Rooms | Skemersdale | |||
Dec / 2016 | • | Zanzibar (end of year show) | Liverpool | |||
Nov / 2016 | • | Devonshire House Hotel | Liverpool | |||
Sep / 2016 | • | TriBeCa | Liverpool | |||
Sep / 2016 | • | Devonshire House Hotel | Liverpool | |||
Aug / 2016 | • | Truth & Justice Concert @ Royal Court | Liverpool | |||
Aug / 2016 | • | The Old Courts | The Old Courts, Wigan, GB | |||
Aug / 2016 | • | RS Bar | Sheffield | |||
Aug / 2016 | • | Off Cut Festival | Cheshire | |||
Aug / 2016 | • | Red Rose Steam Society Mining Museum | Manchester | |||
Aug / 2016 | • | Liverpool Loves | Liverpool | |||
Aug / 2016 | • | 50 Years of Revolver @ Leaf | Liverpool | |||
Jul / 2016 | • | View 2 Gallery | The View 2 Gallery, Liverpool, GB | |||
Jul / 2016 | • | Parr Street Mods @ Parr Street | Liverpool | |||
Jul / 2016 | • | Frodsham Festival | Cheshire | |||
Jul / 2016 | • | Secret Circus @ Parr Street | Liverpool | |||
Jul / 2016 | • | Park Sessions @ Central Park | Wallasey | |||
Jun / 2016 | • | Devonshire House Hotel | Liverpool | |||
Jun / 2016 | • | West Kirby Live | Wirral | |||
May / 2016 | • | Liverpool Rock 'n' Roll Marathon | Liverpool | |||
May / 2016 | • | Concert in the Square | Liverpool | |||
May / 2016 | • | Yes We Camhs @ Grosvenor Ballroom | Wallasey | |||
May / 2016 | • | Cavern Club (I.P.O Liverpool 2016) | Liverpool | |||
May / 2016 | • | Cavern Club (I.P.O Liverpool 2016) | Liverpool | |||
Apr / 2016 | • | Noel Gallagher's Aftershow Party 02 Academy | Liverpool | |||
Apr / 2016 | • | Threshold Festival - Baltic Social | Liverpool | |||
Mar / 2016 | • | Maguire's Pizza Bar | Maguire's Pizza Bar, Liverpool, GB | |||
Mar / 2016 | • | Sound Food and Drink | Liverpool | |||
Feb / 2016 | • | Joe Symes and the Loving Kind @ the Zanzibar | Liverpool |
Label / Release | Type | Year | |
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Truly Independent Records | |||
Phase II | Album | 2018 | |
Acoustic Variations Volume Two | EP | 2017 | |
You're No Friends Of Mine | Single | 2017 | |
Acoustic Variations | EP | 2017 | |
Things Get Better/I'm Gonna Find Out Someday | Single | 2016 | |
Joe Symes & the Loving Kind | Album | 2015 |
Joe Symes, along with Colin White, founded the band. It was while attending a local gig that the latter suggested to the former the name the “Loving Kind:” something that had been buried in his subconscious after listening the R.E.M song Get Up. After a sip or two of beer, the two agreed, set to work, and discovered bass player Alan Welsh. The music world now had a powerful, explosive and foot taping power trio on their hands. An act one spectator described as “sounding like nine people on stage, not a mere three.”
The band’s self-titled debut album, released on their own record label, Truly Independent Records, is a resume of their musical versatility. A record containing songs of the rock, psychedelic, dah-dah, easy listening, country and movie soundtrack variety. One international reviewer called it an indie rock classic and two tracks appeared on the Charity Compilation Shoulder to Shoulder alongside tracks by Paul Weller, Ocean Colour Scene, Roger McGuinn (The Byrds), Robyn Hitchcock, Noel Gallagher, Pete Noone (Herman’s Hermits) and Wishbone Ash. This collection was organised by David Quaife, whose brother Pete was the original bass player of the British rock legends The Kinks. Creation Records’ Alan McGee even praised the album in question, even adding Hollywood stars like Matthew Modine, and Michael Keaton to the fan-base.
This was followed by the energetic rock orientated double A side single Things Get Better/I’m Gonna Find Out Someday: two tracks that show their current heavy pop incarnation, and gives the listener a glimpse of the direction the second album will take them. The single was not only played during half time at Liverpool Football Club’s ground on several occasions,
but was a three-week feature on BBC Introducing. Not too bad for the band’s second official release, spurring into more recordings and shows.
Keeping with the desire to show people more of their musical versatility, the next two releases took a detour down the unplugged route with the release of the Acoustic Variations E.P and the Acoustic Variations E.P Volume two: twin extended plays that show a rock band can translate their compositions from heavy electric guitars and pounding drums to acoustic
guitars, but with various forms of percussion and other instrumentation.
Shortly after this diversion, a limited edition single entitled You’re No Friends of Mine was released as a treat to their loyal fan base.
During the time-scale of these releases the band have not only gained major airplay and radio sessions in their native U.K but all around the world; predominantly in the U.S, Canada, and Australia.
But what do Joe Symes and the Loving Kind do best? What is the thing they shine at the most? The answer, of course, is live performance. Like their publicity resume, the list of places they’ve played and the other bands they’ve shared the bill with is equally impressive. Headlining Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds twice on the main stage of the Liverpool 02 Academy (the first time being (their second gig as a full band), supporting The Blockheads, Dodgy, XTC, Republica, Alt-J, Bloc Party, Starsailor, and The Christians, being part of the Hillsborough Truth & Justice Concert at the Royal Court Theatre Liverpool, headlining the lovely Theatr Brycheiniog in Brecon, and bringing joy to audiences at venues and festivals right across the U.K in Manchester, Glasgow, Cheshire, Sheffield, Wigan, Nottingham, Shrewsbury, Northwich, Leicester, Wigan, Crewe, Stoke, Blackpool, and various parts of North and South Wales.
The summer of 2018 sees the eagerly anticipated release of the band’s second album: a ten track rock classic that will leave the listener wanting more. The production of this album took place in several locations such as Peter Gabriel’s Solid State Logic Studios, the Motor Museum, Liverpool, and Parr Street Studios, Liverpool.
And finally coming up to the present, after taking some time off from live performances, the band began 2020 by working on a new 4 track E.P, which is now scheduled for release in Summer 2021.
So to sum it all up: Joe Symes and the Loving Kind from Liverpool, U.K, One of the most exciting new bands to come out of Liverpool (according to the late Early Beatles manager/Merseybeat promoter Sam Leach, R.I.P.)
To quote Ryan Martin from Chicago based station Jammerzine:
“Take note if you are thinking of starting a band, or wanting to get your music heard. This is how it is done.”