Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Light the fuse and stand well back, do not be tempted to return to item without having read the manual, for once Villy Raze is lit, there is no holding him back and it is a pleasure to see the rocket cascade in a different set of colours in his new single Ignite.
I don’t feel comfortable
in the small talk,
it comes out
the wrong,
unhelpful, inconsequential
and full of near sighted opinions
that are
immovable, restricted
and deaf.
Give me
the big conversation, one of
depth,
one that can be easily followed
and can create
illumination,
loud voices of agreement
or of argument
but in which thankfully never comes
down to
asking someone
just how much their house
is worth
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There is the ballad, the sense of purity in which a person declares love and affection for another soul, but knowing full well it could be thrown back in their face, that the embarrassment of opening up is only countered by the weight of possible disappointment.
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Sometimes it isn’t the person that is next to your side fighting the same battles as you that is the person you confide an idea, a plan or a dream in, for any person who is that deeply entrenched in your life might find it difficult to understand that the way you see the world is not quite the way they view it, that there is more than one way home.
I leave a line of memory on a Bicester wall,
a remark, an admission of love
wrapped up in clothing of regret,
for these days I think of you
in sepia detail, like a long lost lover
who moved away without saying goodbye,
I feel bereft of Time,
for whilst I glimpse at you
in modern social media glory and those bitter
sweet postcards
sent by locomotive from
the steep bank of Bicester North,
I miss the haze of Sheep Street
now closed
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We all understand The Things That Matter and yet as 21st Century beings we find ourselves continually cut adrift from them, we have cut so many ties to family, to friends, to the past and to nature, we have chased the Dollar, the Pound and the Euro, we have greedily sought to own more, abuse our bodies, as well as our surroundings, we have lost sight of The Things That Matter, so much so that it could be remarked that we have become shadows on a mural; inconsequential, pretty to look at but faded by remorse and Time.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It is the moment of high praise when listening to a set of instrumental songs on an album, that the person being serenaded by just sound can reflect on more than just colours, the shapes of aural description and the repose of the strings and brass offered; it is the highest of accolades when that music stirs the imagination and words flow invisibly, like ripples of poetry, down through each instrument and every bar.
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Those Three Words can hide a multitude of meanings, three little words which can profess so much and yet are often fumbled around in case of embarrassment or in case of rejection. We ask ourselves and those we have affection for to listen to be careful on how those words are used, in many cases we only ask for a Just Sign to appear, one of truth and one that Rocks.
In the light of day,
I see you,
spectral showers frame your skin
and the ghosts of our past,
silent, quiet, here
on the Scottish hillside
overlooking the future
with uncertainty and framed by cold winters,
if only they had listened to our unspoken
warning, then we would have not heard
the quiet stealth of a killer
approaching us
from the skies.
In the light of day,
oh my darling, dance with me
as we become
blinded
and then,
much like our melancholic memories,
It was on the 2nd of February 1968 at the world-famous Marquee Club in Wardour Street that Jethro Tull first performed under that name. The group would go on to become one of the most successful and enduring bands of their era, selling over 60 million albums worldwide and entering the cultural collective consciousness along the way.
To celebrate this golden anniversary, Ian Anderson will present 50 years of Jethro Tull in eight U.K. concerts during April 2018 as part of the worldwide touring schedule, including a night at the Auditorium in Liverpool on Saturday 7th April.