Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The gig goer will sit proudly on a stool and sometimes proclaim to any who listen about the time they once did two gigs in one day. It is an act that deserves respect; that they should be willing to travel to catch a show in one part of the country and then get back nearer home to revel in another show. It doesn’t happen all that often as time constraints are such that it just doesn’t fit into the 24 hours allotted to us to be able to pull it off.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Somewhere between Bon Scott, Jim Morrison, the natural street like beauty of Steve Marriott and Jump’s John Dexter Jones lays the sweet heartbeat of Lee Gallagher and The Hallelujah.
It is one of the great pleasures in life that allows a person to hear the untwisted and unhindered emotion that a vocalist can bring to the delicately placed chord arrangements of the band that shroud the lyrical mystique to such a point where the words on offer to the listener take on air of mystery, a puzzle in which to immerse yourself into and gently work out what makes the charisma of the band tick so vibrantly.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
There is putting a shift in and there is pushing it just that one step far before the first signs of a crumble start to appear. It can happen if time is not taken away from the studio and the filtering system of creativity is slightly blunted and becomes torn round the edges. The greats can get away with it however for perhaps a little while longer and whilst Sonic Highways, the new studio album from Foo Fighters, is for the most part a rock dream it is sadly not the full romp that has come to define the group for last decade and a half.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9 out of 10.
Table Top Racing is a car combat racing game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS Vita. The game has an excellent pedigree as Nick Burcombe; the head of the Liverpool based indie developer Playrise Digital launched his career by being part of the development team working on the original and iconic WipEout on PlayStation, which brings much needed experience to take the game onto another level of quality.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There is something unexpectedly delicious waking up to the sound of a good dawn chorus. Depending on the type of bird that sits and nests near your home, the early morning alarm call is perhaps, alongside the dawning of the sun, one of the very few real reasons to feel grateful to be alive at six in the morning. The songbird is much heralded for that incentive to crawl your eyes awake and allow the senses to take part in the natural action available.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are those who find spending a Saturday night indoors and talking about whose turn it is to clean the bin of its watery disgusting insipid farage* that has congealed at the bottom of the plastic container, somehow an enlightening part of their evening. It is inconceivable but apparently to talk of farage is enough to make them giddy with delight. There truly are much better things to do in life than let farage dominate the conversation.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Michelle Gomez, Chris Addison, Jemma Redgrave, Sheila Reid, Andrew Leung, Nigel Betts, Joan Blackham, Sanjeev Bhaskar, James Pearse, Antonio Bourouphael, Shane Keogh-Grenade, Katie Bignell, Jeremiah Krage, Nicholas Briggs, Nick Frost,
The small signs have been there all season, the small nuggets of information that have filtered through should have been heeded. In their place, in one episode across 45 minutes they were easily ignored, a small rip in the fabric that not even the pickiest of fan would care too much to worry about. However as season closers go, it has to be said that Dark Water and Death In Heaven were easily the most frustrating of all since The Twin Dilema saw the beginning of Colin Baker’s era in the blue box in Doctor Who.
My Father
is the most honest,
straight-forward man I know.
He instinctively
knows the safest, straightest
route from A to B.
It therefore came as some surprise
when one cloudy day in Crewe,
he said out-loud,
“You know son,
I think I’d like to buried
at C.”
Ian D. Hall 2014.
Justin Currie at the Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. Photograph by Nic Perrins.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The noise that greeted Justin Currie as he came out on stage at the Epstein Theatre could not have been louder had Concorde decided to drop in unannounced on Hanover Street and empty its passenger cargo full of Scotland fans celebrating winning the World Cup, Independence from Westminster and the Return of Take The High Road and Taggart to television screens onto the theatre’s front door step. With a smile which was as broad as a swish of the Loch Ness Monster’s tail, Justin Currie sped straight into the set and gave a performance that somehow was enjoyed more by the citizens of Liverpool than by those who made his show in Edinburgh in August such a phenomenally enjoyable evening.
Ella The Bird at the Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
How often can you honestly place your hand upon your heart and swear that you have uttered the word wow, that three little word that escapes like a phantom, never knowingly seen or oversold into the ether, as you have watched a support act on stage? It happens, like the rising of the sun, just because you don’t see it every day doesn’t mean that it has forgotten to poke its head above the misty horizon and bounce its rays straight into your eyes. It happens, perhaps once in a while, perhaps once in fifty gigs, but it does happen and listening to Ella The Bird performing on stage before Justin Currie made his own wow effect on the Epstein Theatre audience; the very sizeable wow was heard from somewhere in the audience and the small smile of contented reality bit home.