Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There are times when it is all a musician can do is to play the notes that completes the soul, no matter how dangerous, no matter how solitary or seduced they make them feel, they must feel armed, perilous and ready for a new critical adventure; even if it makes them Ragged and Dirty.
Europe 1914. The outbreak of hostilities begins World War I. Paul Baumer and his school mates enlist in the German army and soon find themselves alongside millions of others fighting on the Western Front. None could have imagined the horrors they are to experience…
And none of them will return home quite the same…
All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque’s classic anti-war novel which is now bought being bought to the stage by Burjesta Theatre at The Casa on Hope Street between the 14th and the 22nd November. All Quiet on the Western Front, set in the trenches and on the Home Front during World War I, with the war being seen from the perspective of ordinary German soldiers and their mothers, wives, teachers and others
Stage Entertainment, in association with Sheffield Theatres, are delighted to announce the U.K. and Ireland tour of Cole Porter’s classic musical comedy, Anything Goes. Following its run at the Crucible theatre in Sheffield (28th November 2014 – 17th January 2015), the tour will see Anything Goes comes to the Liverpool Empire Theatre between the 16th and 21st March.
Directed by Daniel Evans and choreographed by Alistair David, this brand new production of Cole Porter’s classic, multi-award winning musical comedy, Anything Goes transports you to the magical age of tap dancing and high society.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Matthew Waterhouse, Robert Whitelock, Phil Mulryne, Camilla Power, Bethan Walker.
We are made up so many different facets in our genetic and mental make-up that it somewhat surprising that more is not made of the split personality within the world of Science Fiction. For The Doctor, the many personalities that have lived and also have the potential to do so hides perhaps a frightening question, does the Doctor ever really know himself, even he meets parts of him in someone else?
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Long may life be an endearing and ongoing succession of finding music in which constantly catches the listener out, providing an unseen rope trick on which to balance upon and eventually fall hopelessly and utterly for whilst providing no worthless safety net for shattered illusions. Music must succeed or fail on its terms and for that it remains a true and exciting form of art.
First published by Liverpool Live, October 2014.
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Every generation occasionally despairs at the one that is following it, the ones for whom the hopes of creating a fairer world depend upon as the preceding group realises that it has somehow failed to change the world enough to make pettiness and want a negative emotion consigned to the dustbin of history. The despair comes in because somehow they believe that if they cannot make a difference then what chance does this next lot have? There are too many distractions, too much entertainment on offer in which to make making a stand against so called higher powers almost impossible.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Caroline Langrishe, John Banks, Chase Masterson, Terry Malloy, Adrian Lukis, Camilla Power, Louise Jameson, Sinead Keenan, San Shella, Lucy Fleming, Ian McCulloch, Carolyn Seymour, Phil Mulryne, John Dorney, Lisa Bowerman.
For those that remember with fondness or indeed with a tightening grip of fear Terry Nation’s 1970s apocalyptic serial Survivors, the frightening aspect of a civilisation falling apart very quickly is one that is perhaps the most powerful and enduring images of its time and is probably matched only by the television film Threads a decade later. To see it happen on screen as part of a drama is one thing but to have it re-recorded by audio drama specialists Big Finish, already the guardians of the legacy of Doctor Who in audio form as well as establishing a great following with their episodes of the likes of The Avengers, Sapphire and Steel and Blake’s 7, is quite a different proposition.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
To take a gentle walk through an artist’s life is one of the greatest pleasures that anybody can really hope for. The collected works of Constable, Turner or Van Gogh in an art museum for all to see, an entire volume of Shakespeare’s sonnets in which to let the heart sing, a marathon run of Richard Burton or Pam Grier films at your local art house cinema or a night spent in listening to the recordings of Harlem sensation Gladys Bentley, all art is a series of seeing the performer from first breath, through magical momentum to a hopeful ovation at the end. To walk in their footsteps should be seen as an honour.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The world never seems to have enough of Michael Palin. From the early sprouting of comedy genius that resided in the Yorkshire soul, to the creative overload that burgeoned in Monty Python to becoming one of television’s leading travel presenters, throughout it all he remained one of Britain’s favourite and captivating sons.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Frank Skinner, David Bamber, John Sessions, Daisy Beaumont, Janet Henfrey, Christopher Villiers, Foxes, Jamie Hill.
Death stalks the Orient Express, an unseen killer picking of the passengers one by one and with the bodies starting to stack up, it can only be time for the stiff upper lip and slightly lunatic outlook of a madman in a blue box and the mysterious beautiful companion to address the situation and tie up the loose ends.