Roxanne de Bastion, Heart Of Stone. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Hearing a new song from Roxanne de Bastion is like holding hands with an old friend, there is so much warmth in that moment, so much energy to share between the art and the soul that it connects and fuses, the organs melding into one and finally let go as the love is embraced and jointly nodded at in appreciation of what brings to the other. To not get a tingle down the spine, to not enjoy the sensation is surely to suggest that you have a Heart of Stone.

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(383 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Ground Down Cocaine.

 

Ground down cocaine

derivative coursing through my early morning

veins, my dinner time blues and late night

saturated fat on old Jazz music

of which I cannot play a beat,

yet hear every note that the Sax man plays

in earnest down on 77th Street gun alley

where only the night before a man was killed for less

than murdering a rag time special

and looking at his killer’s broad

with a funny eye.

The late November sun catches my eye

and through the glass I take a look around the street,

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(240 words, estimated 58 secs reading time)

Lost Soul, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jake Abraham, Lindzi Germain, Paislie Reid, Catherine Rice, Andrew Schofield, James Spofforth, Lenny Wood.

The place, the city, may have changed but the character, the soul of Liverpool is still so deeply engrained that that the River Mersey cannot be seen as anything other than an artery that feeds lifeblood and is the connection between the spirit and the heart of a community raised on memories, brought up on hard times, an identity that is unlike anything else in the country and one in which the soul is above all.

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(490 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

His Full Stop.

 

We talked for a while, the great Detective writer and I

about his work, the meaning of crime

in the fields of Oxfordshire

and the bounty involved with novel murder,

between the pages,

in one sentence, the last moment of a book’s life

should be that the suspect is named

with a gasp and then nothing

else to follow,

with perhaps the damning of yet another

advert or list of books that the voyeur,

the seer of slaughter and unlawful death,

must own, at least

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(165 words, estimated 40 secs reading time)

Liverpool’s Paul McGann Stars In Moira Buffini’s World War Two Drama Gabriel.

Next month sees the Playhouse welcome Theatre6 on their U.K. tour of Moira Buffini’s powerful war drama Gabriel. Starring Liverpool’s own Paul McGann, the tour will be stopping at the Williamson Square venue Liverpool Playhouse Tuesday 4th – Saturday 8th April.

Thirty years since establishing his name in the iconic cult film Withnail and I, Paul McGann, past Doctor Who from Kensington, returns to his home city on his first U.K. tour with Gabriel. Paul’s previous work includes television productions Hornblower and Luther, the film Alien 3, as well as theatre roles including Helen at Shakespeare’s Globe, Butley in London’s West End and Mourning Becomes Electra at the National Theatre. Paul will play the role of Von Pfunz an army commander stationed in Guernsey.

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(485 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Texas Announce 21 Date U.K. Autumn Tour And New Album Due This April.

With their glorious new album Jump On Board coming out April 21st on B.M.G., Texas announce 21 UK dates this autumn including a very eagerly show at the Philharmonic Hall on Friday 29th September.

Written and produced by Texas stalwarts Johnny McElhone and Sharleen Spiteri Jump on Board is the first new Texas studio album since The Conversation in 2013 and promises to be nothing short of a pop classic.

New single Let’s Work It Out – with a divine video featuring Thierry Henry – has been playlisted at Radio 2 while the band are set to perform on the Chris Evans Radio show with Sharleen also appearing on Saturday Kitchen and BBC Breakfast soon.

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(166 words, estimated 40 secs reading time)

Fabia, This House. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

This House, not one that is in the ownership of the artist, but one that perhaps is more comfortable to be within, to reside with the words and lyrical abandon, the soft soulful tearing apart of everything you know and all that could have been. In This House all is possible because it is a place where there are secrets to be spilled, images to wrestle with and the sweet song of beauty to impart. It is not any old house, it is Fabia’s house and it is one that she makes all welcome to visit.

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(374 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Dig Deep.

You scrubbed yourself over me,

making me feel dirty, a wash of panic

in soapy suds and irritating flakes,

a seventies child with memories

of you in the classroom and digging deep

in the dirt of my stomach to quell

the beast of panic, pushed harder

over and over again till people thought

perhaps I was driven, maybe I was,

but it came from the feelings of being unworthy,

push harder, I may as well be an unborn child

in the womb, push harder,

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(265 words, estimated 1:04 mins reading time)

Mersey Beatles Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Album With Live Performance At The Epstein Theatre.

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and to celebrate the occasion The Mersey Beatles will be performing the whole album live at The Epstein Theatre on Saturday 1st April.

Liverpool’s favourite Beatles tribute band returns to perform at the venue named after the Fab Four’s famed manager, Brian Epstein. This special set will constitute the first half of an unforgettable Beatles experience. The second half of the show will see the boys return in the familiar black suits of Beatlemania and via a quick change they will take the audience on a trip down Abbey Road with 20 golden greats from across the Beatles back catalogue

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(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)