Testament Returns To The Unity Theatre Following Sold Out Success Of Black Men Walking.

Rapper’s new show WOKE explores feminism & equality.

Rapper, producer and world-record holding beatboxer Testament is to return to Liverpool’s Unity Theatre this September 19th. The multi–talented performer’s last show at the venue was Black Men Walking, an Eclipse Theatre Company and Royal Exchange Theatre co-production which toured to sold-out venues across the U.K. and won outstanding reviews.

In his new show, Testament delves into his own relationship to feminism, and attitudes to women in hip-hop – issues brought into sharp focus following the birth of his daughter. What will he discover as he starts to unpick his own prejudices? With a dose of wit, a knack for self-depreciation and a truck-load of honesty, Testament is ready to find out.

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(360 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Hilary Scott, Don’t Call Me Angel. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The steely determination of untameable love, the smooth velvet glove of introspection and the beautiful attitude of a devil who gets mistaken for an angel at all possible moments. It is in this combination of the just and rich voice of Hilary Scott comes alive, it resounds with the passion of unprejudiced, it flows like water down the throat of a thirsty human lost, led astray, in the desert and hallucinating that the vision before them has been sent by their own version of God, call this vision anything you want, just don’t let her retort, Don’t Call Me Angel.

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(399 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Dan Webster, Devil Sky. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Tin Man has been left behind, the hero perhaps of his own story and one that he must endeavour to take alone from here on in, however the tale is far from over and as the thoughts of late nights in once smoky rooms, the smell of whisky filters between the vapour inhaled up the nose and the sweet taste as it explodes in the mouth to the tune of four aces being laid down with the approach of a killer hit. Then it could be considered fortunate for the man of tin, for above him, unseen by the players round the table, the clouds turn a deep shade of red, a fire that burns with sincerity opens up and the result is that the Devil Sky has come to light the way.

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(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Klammer, You Have Been Processed. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is an idea that should only exist in the minds of the Science Fiction writers and the followers of such dire threats laid down in the adventures of humanity’s eternal quest of individualism, of freeing the oppressed from their shackles and their slavery; in the words of so many who passionately parrot-phrase the words, Orwell’s 1984 was meant to be “a warning, not an instruction booklet”, their intentions, whilst repeated so often they lose their power, still holds true, we have become a commodity, the label on show, You Have Been Processed to the point of a billion numbers.

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(423 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Picnic At Hanging Rock. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Natalie Dormer, Lily Sullivan, Lola Bessis, Harrison Gilbertson, Samara Weaving, Madeleine Madden, Inez Curro, Ruby Rees, Yael Stone, Philip Quest, Marcus Graham, James Hoare, Mark Coles Smith, Don Hany, Anna McGahan, Bethany Whitmore, Mayah Fredes, Alyssa Tuddenham, Kate Bedford, Markella Kavenagh, Johnny Pasvolsky, Emily Gruhl, Neil Melville, Nicholas Hope, John Flaus, Tom Hobbs, Aaron Glenane, Roslyn Gentle, Lee Cormie, Kate Box, Kaarin Fairfax, Sibylla Budd, Bruce R. Carter, Felix Johnson, Charlotte Steenbergen.

 

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(573 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Hidden. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Rhodri Meilir, Sian Reese-Williams, Gwyneth Keyworth, Sion Alun Davies, Gillian Elisa, Nia Roberts, Ian Saynor, Victoria Pugh, Lowri Izzard, Garmon Rhys, Elodie Wilton, Owen Arwyn, Lara Catrin, Sarah Tempest, Lois Meleri-Jones, Rhodri Sion, Ioan Hefin, Mali Ann Rees, Megan Llyn, Melangell Dolma, Gwion Aled Williams, Morfudd Hughes, Jess Parsons, Manon Wilkinson, Gwydion Rhys, Beth Robert, Mari Rowland Hughes, John Pierce Jones, Wyn Bowen Harries, Mark Lewis Jones, Greta James.

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(540 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Yesterday’s News.

 

The freshly battered chip shop

saveloy drips its grease

slowly across my yesterday’s news

face, a picture, I hoped,

of intrigue and stately poise,

preserving in time a pose

that will adorn a thousand books,

now already out of time,

already an article

lost to the age of the once staple

and not rationed meal, eat

your fill, no coupon required

and let the batter fill your heart

completely and forever, whilst

the day I appeared in my local paper

is remembered for placing

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(103 words, estimated 25 secs reading time)

Liverpool’s Unity Theatre Unveils Its 2018 Autumn Season.

World-class theatre companies: Headlong, Told by an Idiot and Paines Plough To Come To The Unity.

 Unity Theatre is delighted to introduce their Autumn 2018 season, featuring some of the most respected names in theatre, as part of an exciting programme that looks to the future and questions what might be in store.

From September 10th – 15th the Unity Theatre is delighted to have a new play from multi award winning theatre company Headlong, in association with Birmingham Reparatory Theatre; Meek is a dystopian drama that presents a nightmarish parallel reality where censorship, repression and control reign supreme. The play, from Fringe First-winning playwright Penelope Skinner, was described as “an absolutely captivating show” * * * * by Broadway Baby when it opened in Edinburgh this August.

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(708 words, estimated 2:50 mins reading time)

Kneehigh Return To The Everyman For A Joyful And Surreal Retelling Of International Best-Seller FUP.

A story of family, love, loss and an overweight whiskey-swilling duck is set to visit Liverpool this October, as Everyman favourites Kneehigh return with FUP from 9th-13th October for seven performances.

Based on U.S. novelist Jim Dodge’s best-seller, FUP is a wonderfully strange and uproarious modern fable directed by Simon Harvey – artistic director of O-region and presented by Dead Dog in a Suitcase and The Tin Drum makers Kneehigh.

One-hundred year-old Grandaddy Jake Santee and his enormous grandson Tiny live life on the fringes, drinking the home distilled Ol’ Death Whisper, building fences and boasting of immortality.  But then, Fup arrives – a movie-loving mallard with an insatiable appetite whose extraordinary presence transforms their lives forever.

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(290 words, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)

West End Star Linzi Hateley Debuts As Mrs Johnstone In Blood Brothers Autumn Tour.

The Musical For All Time Comes To St. Helens Theatre Royal Next Month.

Bill Kenwright’s “Dazzling” (Sunday Telegraph) production of the international smash hit musical Blood Brothers announces its 2018 Autumn tour, opening on Tuesday 4th September at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley and visits St. Helens Theatre Royal from Tuesday 11th – Saturday 15th September.

This iconic musical has been visiting theatres across the country throughout 2018, performing to sell-out houses and receiving standing ovations.

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(651 words, estimated 2:36 mins reading time)