Monthly Archives: April 2014

A View From The Bridge, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Bruce Alexander, Andy Apollo, Jason Carragher, Callum Coates, Daniel Coonan, Julia Ford, Scott Hazell, Lloyd Hutchinson, Denise Kennedy, Tom Peters, Joe Ringwood, Shannon Tarbet, Liam Tobin, Daryl Wafer.

Arthur Miller’s plays are such that to miss out on a production of them is simply not good form. All you really need to know about life in the United States in the 20th Century can be found in the writings of one of the keenest minds of the time and his look at certain frailties of life, emasculation, deceit, dishonour and the destruction of a system that was corrupt and hopelessly out of touch with his thinking, are repeated over and again in the hope that someone, anyone might understand what is going wrong in the country.

A View From The Bridge, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(661 words, estimated 2:39 mins reading time)

Sonata Artica, Pariah’s Child. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It used to be noted that an album must be worth at least listening to if the band had obviously spent money on the cover. The use of dramatic and in some cases exceptional pieces of art that would adorn the sleeve was a good indication that the group or artists were proud to have something memorable on the front rather than a picture of the band, something in which to capture the whole essence of what was to come. Marillion, Pink Floyd and Magnum always knew how to employ the method and now the eighth album by Sonata Artica, the wild and untamed Pariah’s Child joins that list of recordings that backs up the theory.

Sonata Artica, Pariah’s Child. Album Review. full post

(507 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Kaiser Chiefs, Education, Education, Education & War. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The Kaiser Chiefs promised a hiatus and that is what their fans got and thankfully the time has come again for the Yorkshire band. With new addition Vijay Mistry on drums, Ricky Wilson, Andrew White, Nick Baines, Simon Rix have conspired to make sure that the past few years away have not been for nothing, that they have worked what ever made them go arguably off the boil somewhat out of their system and will see their fans relish as if have been offered the keys to musical sanctuary in the form of Education, Education, Education & War.

Kaiser Chiefs, Education, Education, Education & War. Album Review. full post

(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Scavenger. Big Finish Audio Drama Review 184.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Colin Baker, Lisa Greenwood, Tariq Bhatti, Kate McEwen, Anjli Mohindra, Tania Rodrigues, John Banks.

Space, perhaps the most dangerous place that Humanity’s eyes can ever see and yet the peril, the threat of the black canvas is one in which at some point surely anybody who has ever lived has dreamed about seeing. To take in the whole majesty of the speck of rock we cling to, to dare to take a chance on seeing for ourselves the neglected sphere for all its beauty and destruction, surely that makes space worthwhile.

Doctor Who: Scavenger. Big Finish Audio Drama Review 184. full post

(590 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Sin City: The Big Fat Kill. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Dwight McCarthy, perhaps one of three decent men who inhabit the world of Sin City, has a new face but that doesn’t stop him from finding trouble by the truck load or even getting involved with the women of Old Town once more in the third book in the Graphic Novel range by lauded artist and creator Frank Miller.

Sin City: The Big Fat Kill. Graphic Novel Review. full post

(515 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)