I still live
for Music, milk and Mars Bars,
never finding a replacement for them all,
the speed of the thirty three
and a third, always fulfilling
and fuelling the memory of fifty
pence in my pocket, a morning token
in which the early Walkman knock off
would play me the music of choice
on the way to school, passing by
the odd discarded milk bottle, a victim
of thirst and now drained
and allowed to stand erect, proud,
devoid of culture and parading the remains
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, Melissa Benoist, Austin Stowell, Nate Long, Chris Mulkey, Damon Gupton, Susanne Spoke, Max Kasch, Charlie Ian, Jayson Blair, Kofi Siriboe, Kavita Patil, C.J. Vana, Tarik Lowe, Tyler Kimball, Rogelio Douglas Jr, Adrian Burks, Calvin C Winbush, Joseph Bruno, Michael D. Cohen, Jocelyn Ayanna, Keenan Henson, Rachel Bornholdt.
It is the one central theme of the film Whiplash, the act of dominance, which makes it such an achievement of cinema making.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9½ /10
The third album by The Riotous Brothers, The Tree, starts like a feeling of pure exhilaration and ends up with you wanting to weep for all the right reasons and take each song to your heart. If an album can really take you to places that you cannot go to in your physical life then this is the same sensation you might get when you read Wuthering Heights, Far from The Madding Crowd, Moby Dick or Edward Rutherford’s Sarum for the first time in the quiet slumber of deep forest surrounded by the dying embers of a perfect summer’s day.