Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres Reveal Autumn Winter 2018 Season Ahead Of Public Sale.

Familiar faces return to Liverpool including theatre companies Kneehigh, Northern Broadsides and former Everyman Company member Matthew Kelly.

Following the announcement of The Lovely Bones, A Christmas Carol and Everyman rock ‘n’ roll panto The Snow Queen earlier this year, the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse has revealed its full programme for Autumn Winter 2018. Book adaptations, comedians, music, familiar faces and new collaborations to join their in-house productions for the season.

Modern best-sellers and literary classics will visit both theatres throughout the season joining the stage premiere of Alice Sebold’s best-seller The Lovely Bones at the Everyman from 25th September – 5th October.

The Chris Bevington Organisation, Cut And Run. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Chris Bevington could never be the kind of musician, or man, that anyone would accuse of ever dreaming of never giving anything less than his absolute dedication to the cause ahead. This is not a person who would Cut and Run, rather, he would be the one leading the fight, the guitar by his side, the fingers picking at the air beside it, ready to fire at a moment’s notice; a lawman in the old Wild West, ready to always do what is right in the service of the badge of Blues.

Phantom Voices, Peace By Peace. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A lot can and will be written about British Folk music in the early part of the 21st Century, its resurgence as a defining genre, the ability of its players, the songs and tunes performed. If there is no book on the subject forthcoming as we unimaginably speed through the first 20 years of this time in which we sit on the precipice of greatness and equally on the edge of the chasm of folly, then the world will be a darker place for the lack of passion raised.

The Black Feathers, The Ghosts Have Eaten Well. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Regret and shame, two states of being that eat away at our souls and minds, sometimes to the point in which the body starts to fade, the skin taking on a grey tinge which grows and spreads over time and the brutal pounding of the heart as it tries its best to stay in tune, feeling the abandonment and the suffering of its owner but unable to rectify the situation unless the person finds a way to love themselves again.

Desert Mountain Tribe, Om Parvat Mystery. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Music must progress, to allow it to stand still is to ask that the rain must never fall, that the sun must forever shine only on the privileged and that winds of good fortune and ill favour must always be separated into those who some higher power decrees it be upon. Music must be bold, music must flow like rivers drift and curse into the wider seas and oceans, it must shift course and it must take hold of the listener in ways they never expected it to; it must always remain a mystery in which the dutiful audiophile must explore and always understand that it can never be truly understood.

King Lear. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Emily Watson, Jim Broadbent, Florence Pugh, Jim Carter, Andrew Scott, John Macmillan, Tobias Menzies, Anthony Calf, Karl Johnson, Christopher Eccleston, John Standing, Simon Manyonda, Chukwudi Iwuji, Samuel Valentine, Arinze Kene, Sharon Watts, Kaye Brown, Raphael Desprez, Peter Forbes, Sam Redford, Liam McKenna, Paul Tinto, Eric Kofi-Abrefa.

Home From Home. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Johnny Vegas, Emilia Fox, Adam James, Niky Wardley, Oscar Kennedy, Harvey Chaisty, Paul Barber, Elaine Paige, Pearce Quigley, Olive Gray, Susan Calman.

Johnny Vegas certainly deserves his chance to headline a major B.B.C. comedy, after all, he has provided fans of the series Still Open All Hours with plenty of laughter, and his relationship with David Jason, Kulvinder Ghir and above all Sally Lindsay, is to be admired, the transition made from stand up to small screen is seamless, even perhaps a greater virtue, one in which finally the actor can feel Home From Home.

Solo: A Star Wars Story. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Alden Ehrenreich, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Paul Bettany, Jon Favreau, Linda Hunt, Joonas Suotamo, Ian Kenny, Anthony Daniels, John Tui, Warwick Davis, Erin Kellyman, Ray Park.

It is perhaps impossible to capture the essence of what makes a screen legend in a particularly iconic role; the one in which they not only ran with across four different films in a much-loved film series, but to whom in many ways was the absolute star, the one to whom the kids loved and the one that others admired. To try and do so would be reckless folly, and yet every hero needs their backstory told, every past needs to be explored and that of Han Solo is no exception.

The Curse Of Adapting.

 

I wrote a thousand words down,

mostly direction, some form,

all cloud and dust from a temper that rages

to be free, simple

and subtle substance of memory

adapting to a new place, released

by a new phrase, new belief,

and yet as I look upon this meagre world

where pseudo black ink

discretely blots out pages of snow

and ice bound though,

I cry a little, for it surely is all for nought.

 

Ian D. Hall 2018

Shelby, Texas, We Are Shelby, Texas. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In the heat of a spoilt Texas night, the sound of crickets and the thoughts of music gone by are sure to be illuminating, if not in many cases intimidating; add to that the beauty of the American Country ballad or the passion of a song that lights up the face when played in a bar that seems to be a few miles off down a dirt road and frequented by those with an absolute lust for the genre at hand, then you know you have been bitten by the gentle taste of the deep South and the mix of harmony that comes from Rock and Country.