Monthly Archives: August 2012

Queen, Innuendo. Album Review (2011 Re-Mastered Edition)

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 5th 2011.

Queen’s final studio album whilst Freddie Mercury was alive was the eccentric and adorable Innuendo. It may have been an open secret that would not be finally acknowledged publicly until the November of 1991, but Freddie’s daily battle with A.I. D.S was having a tremendous effect on his ability to perform and it is credit and testement to the measure of the man that no matter how desperately ill he must have felt during the last years of his life, he turned in a set of performances on the album that was the epitome of a long and illustrious career.

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Queen, The Miracle. Album Review, (2011 Re-Mastered Edition).

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 5th 2011.

The Miracle was Queen’s 13^th studio album and even though the band had been suffering internal turmoil with vocalist Freddie Mercury’s admission to the band that he was seriously ill and the breakdown of Brain May’s first marriage, the four members pulled out all the stops to recorded what could be considered the bands finest album of the 1980’s. It has tough competition from The Works and the group’s next album Innuendo.

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Queen, Made in Heaven. Album Review (2011 Re-Mastered Edition)

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 7th 2011.

The final Queen album to get the re-mastered treatment is the one that may have divided Queen fans the most. Made in Heaven was released after the death of vocalist Freddie Mercury, its songs taken from the last days of the charismatic singer and his insistence to get as many songs down on tape before his untimely death. Several songs were recorded and the band met up after to finish the project.

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(422 words, 1 image, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

We Will Rock You, Theatre Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 9th 2011.

Cast: Ian Reddington, Earl Carpenter, Noel Sullivan, Amanda Coutts, Ashley J Russell, Leon Lopez, jenny Douglas, Mathew Craig, Nicola Poustie.

It took time, but finally the global smash hit We Will Rock You found its way to Liverpool, ripped up the rule book on entertaining an audience that were already near to giving a standing ovation before they even opened the curtain and gave the kind of performance that the culture capital of the U.K. deserved and gave every other production due to come to Liverpool this year a very big headache and a huge hurdle to overcome.

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Tales From Under the Counter, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 11th 2011.

Cast: Alice Bunker-Whitney, Holly Wilson-Guy.

Tales From Under the Counter is the debut performance from the women behind the Idiotinsync Company. Deeply dark, in places disturbing as the audience realises that there are blind spots that we don’t see what happens in too people struggling in business against the big corporations and yet underneath it all touching and fresh.

Alice Bunker-Whitney and Holly Wilson-Guy took on the mantle of six people in one and half hours, all in their own way struggling with the pressure of the modern world, whether through relationship breakdown, loss of a family member or the recognition that the banks could foreclose on a business that may have stood for generations.

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Suzi Quattro, In The Spotlight. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 12th 2011.

Suzi Quattro may not be a name that immediately leaps to mind when asked of influential women in Rock and Roll, especially with those raised on a diet of post 1980’s pop culture. However Suzi deserves to be mentioned not just in hushed tones of reverence and slight nods but to be celebrated and enjoyed over and over again.

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Lindsey Buckingham, Seeds We Sow. Album Review.

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Originally published by L.S. Media. September 12th 2011.

Seeds We Sow really could be an analogy for the life of Lindsey Buckingham. He is seen as successful, supremely talented, driven but with that little edge that has been the subject of many a Rock documentary.

Seeds We Sow is the sixth solo album by the man more known as the creative force behind some of Fleetwood Mac’s finest moments including the fantastic Go Your Own Way, Second Hand News, the brutal sounding Tusk and Caroline. Some of the most personal moments of his life have been recorded for posterity and listened to millions of times over world-wide and in Seeds We Sow, it seems as though that incredible trend continues.

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Tartuffe, Theatre Review. Liverpool Playhouse Theatre.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 14th 2011.

Cast: Hiran Abeysekera, Joseph Alessi, Eithne Browne, Simon Coates, Annabelle Dowler, Ilan Goodman, Rebecca Lacey, Emily Pithon, Alan Stocks, Colin Tierney.

There is nothing like welcoming an old friend back into your life and in the modern stand out poetry of Roger McGough and the timeless humour of Moliere, the Liverpool Playhouse opened its new season to a play that was first viewed by local audiences as the city celebrated being the Capital of Culture in 2008.

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Anthrax, Worship Music. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 14th 2011.

Anthrax have long been lauded as one of the big four of Thrash Metal and quite rightly so. Heavyweight albums such as Among The Living, the entertaining Spreading the Disease and Persistence of Time have guaranteed the band a healthy and fanatical following over the years.

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Dream Theater, A Dramatic Turn of Events. Album Review.