Maddie, Zanzibar, Liverpool. February 2017. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Romans used to be so dismissive of winter, so trivial was the meaning of the darkness, of what we might think of as the blues without the thought of sunshine and spring to warm our bones, their attitude was to lump January and February together, one big long dull month, one exceedingly long and bitter month with nothing to do but sit and grow listless.