Yearly Archives: 2014

Doctor Who: Flatline. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Jovian Wade, John Cummins, Christopher Fairbanks, Samuel Anderson, Rajendra Bajaj, Matt Bardock, Jessica Hayles, James Quinn.

Doctor Who is never better than when it brings the alarm and disquiet of a new enemy to the viewers’ minds. Like the Weeping Angels before them, the creatures who inhabit a world of 2D imagery is enough to make people stop and wonder what exactly the scientific world will be able to achieve post the ability to replicate 3D form. Growing human body parts is one thing, to steal that person’s identity by the means of subsuming them into an alien pattern of life is another.

Doctor Who: Flatline. Television Review. B.B.C. full post

(548 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Liverpool’s St. George’s Hall Announces Dates Of Second Annual Christmas Grotto.

Liverpool’s iconic St. George’s Hall has announced details of its second annual magical grotto – and it promises to be even bigger and better for Christmas 2014. Santa’s Magical Grotto sets the scene for an exciting festive season when it opens each weekend from 15th November to 7th December. It then opens daily between 13th and 23rd December.

Visitors will be treated to live character performances along a festive treasure trail which leads to a traditional grotto. Here, they meet Santa Claus who will present them with an early Christmas gift – if they’ve been good!

Liverpool’s St. George’s Hall Announces Dates Of Second Annual Christmas Grotto. full post

(638 words, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)

True Love Lies, Theatre Review. St. James Cavalier Castile Place, Valetta.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ray Calleja, Jes Camilleri, Pia Zammit, Bettina Paris, Joe Azzopardi.

The family unit, the last great bastion of civilisation or so they say but when a family is torn apart by uncovered secrets from the past, when the lies, which were told in order to protect at the time, become the pivotal point of damning collision it is no wonder that the family can be seen as dysfunctional.

True Love Lies, Theatre Review. St. James Cavalier Castile Place, Valetta. full post

(424 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Corazon, Hawn Jien. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

One of the problems that the British seems to have dumped on its doorstep by the populaces of other countries, rightly or wrongly, is that we can be far too staid in our appreciation of other countries’ musical heritage. As a nation we might make the odd noise, the gestured nod in all the right places and congratulate the musicians on producing something insightful, thrilling perhaps, but it never seems to last. From one musical extreme to other, from the might of Heavy Metal to the laid back nature of Folk or the hedonism of pop culture, if it’s not sang in English we tend to hold it at arm’s length for fear of ridicule or misunderstanding.

Corazon, Hawn Jien. Album Review. full post

(452 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Virgil And The Accelerators, Army Of Three. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are just some things that cannot be beaten, destroyed or taken apart by the flippancy of a malnourished pen. They can only be dipped further into the inkwell and given the responsibility of adding greater texture or colouring, the actions of a pen that gains its pleasure by understanding that the thought of not declaring just how good something is, is akin to the desperate act of the bored, twisted and lonely. That by not embracing something for all its worth is a sacrilege.

Virgil And The Accelerators, Army Of Three. Album Review. full post

(402 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Circa Waves Announce November U.K. Tour.

Circa Waves have announced details of their U.K. tour this November. The tour, which starts on November 6th at Glasgow’s Oran Mor, will come to the Liverpool’s Kazimier on the 20th November.

Circa Waves have also announced details of the release of a new single. So Long will be released through Virgin on Monday 20th October 2014. The single, produced by Dan Grech and recorded at RAK studios in London as part of their debut album sessions, follows the release of previous songs Young Chasers and Stuck In My Teeth.

Circa Waves Announce November U.K. Tour. full post

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The Celebrated Everyword Returns With A Series Of Great Writing.

The Everyman & Playhouse’s annual celebration of writing, Everyword, returns this year from Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th October at the Everyman, the Playhouse Studio and rambling across the city with a series of new plays, workshops and literary happenings with contributions from some of the city’s brightest talents including Lizzie Nunnery, Jeff Young and Luke Barnes.

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(650 words, estimated 2:36 mins reading time)

Chasing Pandora, Time. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

When the general populace think of the Mediterranean they might ruminate on the blue skies, the mixture that hangs in the air of European influence and North African desire, of wars raged, of a dusky exoticness that draws people in from all over the world and a general ambience that is hard to ignore. Those qualities are even more abundant when it comes to the islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino. Three islands in which the European influence has played out heavily across the time, from the French, the Italian states and the British, they weathered and braved terrible onslaught day after day during the Second World War and have a well-deserved reputation of being a distinctive and friendly people to the point that their music, no matter the genre, just seems so uplifting that it is cross every sphere of authorative stimulus imaginable. Chasing Pandora from Gozo are no exception.

Chasing Pandora, Time. E.P. Review. full post

(425 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

The Royal Court Theatre Announces Cast For 2014 Christmas Show.

The final names have been added to the cast for The Royal Court Christmas show and they are raring to go!

Scouse Of The Antarctic is the latest in a series of Liverpool comedies from Fred Lawless who has had great success with the likes of Scouse Pacific, Little Scouse On The Prairie and last year’s hit The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Fazakerley.

Just when everyone thought the ‘Cold War’ was over, a Russian and U.S. submarine race to the North Pole to claim the recently discovered mineral rights.  The last thing they expect to find when they get there is a Scouser with a bobble hat on and a bloody student banging on about global warming.

The Royal Court Theatre Announces Cast For 2014 Christmas Show. full post

(330 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

The Magnet Hosts The Liverpool Comedy Cellar Christmas Comedy Specials.

The Liverpool Comedy Cellar Liverpool’s newest and coolest comedy club present their first Christmas Comedy Specials at The Magnet this December featuring the cream of the international Comedy Circuit.

Whether people are organising their Christmas staff night out or celebrating the festive period with friends The Liverpool Comedy Cellar offer a great value night out  with tickets at just £12 and great deals on drinks in the “The Best Venue in Liverpool” as voted by The Guardian Newspaper.

The Liverpool Comedy Cellar continues to offer a stellar line up this December with award winning comedians from T.V and radio.

The Magnet Hosts The Liverpool Comedy Cellar Christmas Comedy Specials. full post

(238 words, estimated 57 secs reading time)