Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Ask anyone, pick on a stranger, find a friend to converse with down the local, take a trip out to your nearest and dearest and ask them a simple yet illuminating question, take heed of their answer and then go out into the street and ask the same line of enquiry to a thousand others, the startling realisation is that everybody has their own truth, the mantra in which they live by and the devotion to which their serve it.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Whether we like it or not, we are all on a mission, we almost don’t recognise the fact the charge of the vocation placed before us, we don’t realise the simplicity of the exercise in hand, to survive, to spread a sprinkle of joy where we can. To drive the vehicle of our choice, from high speed adrenaline fuelled rocket under the bonnet, ten wheeled drive juggernaut to the sedate feel of our feet touching the very Earth in which we have made our home, taking every moment in, only pausing to salute the bravery and the sheer cool of those who find the iconic Volkswagen Transporter an alluring sight on The Mission Express as offer the listener a moment to be Bathed in Comfort.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
If everything was easy, then everybody would be doing it, everybody would have so much going on in their lives that the world would ground to a halt under the weight of simplicity and the uncomplicated.
If everything was easy, then what would be the point of endeavour, of pushing the soul till it reaches what feels like breaking point, there would be no conviction, no sincerity, no belief, art would become meaningless, music would be a devoid of any creative personality, theatre would become a bore. Thankfully it Ain’t Always Easy, thankfully life and the pursuit of passion is full of pitfalls, traps, black holes and the respect due to those that try and often fail, for life, as Stone Broken make clear in the opening track of their new album, is Worth Fighting For.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
An Encounter is all you need in which to see the day, Time, your life, differently, the chance meeting, the overheard information, the prize of attaining something new and exciting and regardless of what Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson may whisper down the monotone years, an encounter doesn’t have to be brief, it doesn’t have to just a passing phase, it can lead quite happily down the road to place where angels lay in eternal blissful wait or where the Music For Voyeurs is an unbroken and irreversible passion.
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It is the cry of pain that wrestles with experience, the need, the sense of forlorn hope that the person expresses in the act of defiance and denial, the three words Take Me Back are there to remind us that we can never truly capture the feeling that was once deeply ingrained into hearts, seared with a branding iron, stamped with the memory of that we have lost. It is the three words we have all used once in our lives and the ones we remember; perhaps the only time the act of self pity or overwhelming pressure is vocally heard and is meant in its raw and most passionate sense.
I don’t know why
but it got to me
that you didn’t see Terry
before he died.
I knew that you had an issue
with death, you had lived with it,
a day to day companion, an image
in the corner of the room
whenever you thought of a brother,
one not destined to be like you,
vibrant, easy going charm,
a devilish smile, rakish
but with sound heart beating,
but not for the dead,
it got to me because I realised
no matter how close we were
From 21st-24th February, more than 50 young actors from Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP) will challenge us to think about the world we live in day-to-day in the bold, new and politically-charged drama The City and the Value of Things.
Using their own experiences, The City and the Value of Things focuses around the everyday – what we see and pass all the time, choose to notice or not. The power given on one thought of whether to spare that pound or stand up in the community and say something when everyone else is remaining silent.
A dance company transforming the lives of people struggling with addiction through theatre and performance will hold a series of FREE performances in Merseyside and Chester this February.
Dark Night Ends is an interactive dance theatre performance from Fallen Angels Dance Theatre (FADT) featuring live dance, spoken word and real life authentic stories of recovery from addiction.
With elements of audience participation, the performance is the culmination of a project set out by the company to explore new approaches to retelling recovery stories through dance theatre.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is no getting away with the fact that despite it being a sprawling metropolis, a virtual criss-crossed labyrinth of villages encircled by the M25 and bound together by a distinction of purpose rather than the natural order of unity, that the songs of London, from its people through to its incredible history, are always worth hearing, especially when they are in the voice of a musician to whom the streets are not paved with the commonplace or the predictable stare of someone who has immersed themselves too deeply in the capital’s attention, but instead one to whom sees and hears the delight of the unaccustomed and the precious.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Ration * * *
Cast: Lydia Wilson, Joel Fry, James Frechville, Claire Rushbrook, Joanna Scanlon, Pippa Haywood, Tara Fitzgerald, Sian Reece-Williams, Richard Harrington, Simon Kunz, Dyfan Dwyfor, Brendan Coyle, Clare Calbraith, Sam Hazeldine, Bella Ramsey, Caroline Martin, Darren Evans, Charles Dale, Jane Thorne, Charles Dale, Oliver Lansley, Brochan Evans, Sonia Ritter, Gareth Mason, Emmie Thompson, Ffion Jolly, Mali Morse, Nicola Reynolds.