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To get to The Atkinson Theatre’s Studio in Southport you have no choice but to pass paintings by various artists, all in the Victorian mode. They are worthy of taking a lingering pause by, they capture the imagination and make you think; they nurture a blossoming idea of what the ideal should be, they might not be the first paintings you think of but then what is until you behold it for the first time and it takes your breath away.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
It is one of the most profoundly moving and stirring pieces of music ever captured for posterity, taken from a story by H.G. Wells which has captured the imagination since it was first published and in which Jeff Wayne has for over 35 years brought to life in its deserved glory. However music aside, the death knell for The War of the Worlds has been sounded across the void of space.
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Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Jo Harvey Allen, Barry Corbin, David Dencik, William Fichtner, Evan Jones, Caroline Lagerfelt, John Lithgow, Tim Blake Nelson, Jesse Plemons, James Spader, Hailee Steinfeld, Meryl Streep.
Some films just have the ability to leave an audience member completely unnerved by the message of stark truth that they can feel as though have been hit several times with a jack hammer across the stomach and yet have them pleading for more.
I need my next fix.
I need the needle to come gently down
and give me an escape route out of what could be
a boring existence,
if not for my not so-secret vice.
The odd burning cigar still lingers here.
Long gone is the bitter recrimination of a pint savoured and destroyed
and the gentle relaxation of something intangible
has not been taken for a while
as my friend in Oxford I haven’t seen.
I need my latest fix.
I first visited the dealer on my own far too young.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Helen Carter, Michael Fletcher, Lindzi Germain, Hayley Hampson, Michael Ledwich, John McGrellis, Michael Starke, Ross Higginson, Jack Humers, Emily Linden, Alex Smith.
The Antarctic: A place where a person from Liverpool can be at one with Penguins, Polar Bears, a sarcastic snowman with a not just a carrot on his nose but a chip on a shoulder and a cob on his mind and where a man’s underpants can signify that you are truly the master of all you survey. Life it seems can be serene and peaceful as the Scouse of The Antarctic.
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Perhaps more than any other art form, the wheels that turn band memberships and the off shoots that see music evolve and prosper is a by-product of the artistic and perhaps more combustible association of having so many diverse personalities within a tight and fruitful combination. Fallings out, bust ups, natural progression or just the urge to do something new away from the people that you have fought alongside is enough to spark the motor of creativity and force a long dead sense of freedom from out of exile.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5 out of 10
Styx: Master of Shadows is a third-person stealth based action adventure game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. The game is a spin-off of the RPG game Of Orcs and Men which was released in 2012 having also been developed by Cyanide Studio as well as another fantasy inspired game in the form of Blood Bowl which pits a variety of species from humans to orcs, elves, dwarves and more in a no-holds barred game of American Football in huge stadiums.
For whom do we blame when we finally admit that the Devil is dead
and that God stopped caring after all.
There is no fire laden pit in which the cackle of a billion tortured lives
are heard screaming in agony and the taste of lingering sulphur
is a dietary supplement in which
to atone for the lack of space provided by a misdirected deed,
the ramblings of a sad lonely woman or the heresy of the scheming miser.
The Devil is dead…
he died a brutal death, in agony and with his forked tongue
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If you ever needed more substantial proof that the lands that make up Scandinavia are the rightful kings and queens of Metal in the last few years, then you need look no further than the excellent Swedish group, Spiders and their latest album Shake Electric.
The tangled, layered web of Ann-Sofie Hoyles dominating vocals playfully tease the listener with a fascinating intrigue, a perspective and a look into the world in which for many have left behind by the time they hit their 30s or when the fickle finger of parental responsibility comes crashing into view like a ten tonne truck out of control on the M6.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
The uncharted territory of being unsure of how an album will be received is always in the thoughts of a band as they, hopefully with great care, hand over the exchange of long, tiring hours, a few near nervous exhaustive breakdowns and spirited highs in which the world was a prospect of gleaming towers and expectant green fields. It is the moment in which an artist is beset with pride and optimism whilst battling fatigue and bouts of serial negativity.