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Desperate times can bring out the very best in people, it can enhance the artistic endeavour, it can find ways to hold a mirror up to culture and civilisation, to the individual just how their lives have taken a wrong turn, or give them a warning that to carry on the road of ignorance is to convey the message that society no longer matters, that we are just one step away from all being migrants, strangers, uninformed Collateral in a fractured world,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
To welcome back Talk Show from the recording studio is to find yourself back in the arms of a linguistic lover who paints pictures with a heartbeat that is so closely entwined to your own needs, that you cannot but help know you are going to be caressed all night long as the memories linger and the sound of wave after wave of a Permanent Honeymoon, one supplied by one of the most attention-grabbing bands of modern times to come along.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Your own personal rapture, the moment of exquisiteness that defines a life and the dynamism of the heralding of the call up to the table you have long wanted to be at. The first painting sold, the debut poem that gets applause or the E.P that signals that all that went before was indeed true and not damned by plastic smiles and the faint whiff of sulphur from fork tongued mouths; This Rapture is to be believed and seen as the stepping stone to audience enthusiasm and one that is a palpable heart stirring prospect.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
To hear Daniel Astles is to see the point of naming an E.P. Full of Wonder, it does obviously allude to the songs contained harmoniously within the song listing, it does offer the sincerity of the music captured and the respect deserved. However, if you were to choose a title for the young man’s release then you would probably think of him anyway, you would align your thoughts on the whole package and come up with the same belief, that indeed it is Full of Wonder.
She makes them just for me,
and her mum, hand crafted
each Yuletide as the decorations
hang
forever in an unspectacular box
on the airing cupboard.
I told her that I loved her Mince Pies,
despite not caring about the day
itself and they were delicious,
however I had once
tasted, just to try,
a shop finished treat
as I slowly warmed myself with a hot chocolate delight
against the cold I felt in my middle age veins;
Her eyes always blue, blazed and narrowed,
Liverpool’s Royal Court is delighted to announce a new show for 2018 as Liver Birds Flying Home is the brand new musical based on the landmark television series The Liver Birds by Carla Lane and Myra Taylor.
A co-production with James Seabright and George Seaton directed by Benji Sperring, it features all new music by Barb Jungr and Level 42’s Mike Lindup with an original script by Barb Jungr, George Seaton and Linda McDermott. Fully supported by Carla Lane and her family, the show brings the audience up to date with Beryl and Sandra as they are now.
“I’m not doing this for anyone else. I’m doing it because it’s important to me to make the songs better. I have to do it.” Ian McCulloch.
Echo & the Bunnymen have announced a brand new studio album, The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon for 2018, along with a headline U.K. tour, which includes a night at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and culminates at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
This new studio album will see The Bunnymen, still lead by the indomitable Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant, revisit some of their greatest songs to rearrange and transform them with co-producer Andy Wright and …strings and things. Expect a couple of brand new tracks to accompany the classics.
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Time, as noted by the singer and the audience, is a peculiar animal, it can snarl all it wants, it can find ways to give new perspective to eras in which some saw the end of a kind of order and were frightened by the prospect and in which other relished and rubbed their hands in glee as the future and bold vision opened up before them.
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To make the audience focus completely on the drama unfolding before them takes consummate skill, a deftness of spirit, the potency of allure and the mystery, the sense of living through a moment so tangible that it seems all the functions of the human body stop what they are doing and just sit in the honour of the spectacle; to focus so much that you cannot hear a crowd breathe during a song and then applaud like a series of rolling thunderstorms across an empty desert, that is the absolute found.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
It has always been noted that life can change within the beat of a single heart, that to not listen to the sound of your inner being is a sure fire way to be seen as nonchalant, perhaps even believing that the sound of a till in these desperate consumer driven days and times of political unreality is more in keeping with 21st Century dogma than ever stopping to think just how fortunate we are to have an organ in us that feels love, pain, despair and elation.