Yearly Archives: 2014

Cousin Jac, Believe Me To Remain. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are those who are quick to judge without considering exactly what it is that makes an artist tick. The spark of idea, the small germ of a notion that takes root and multiplies until it cannot be contained, a concept that takes over every waking moment; all are seen to some as just an impulse in which to suggest that an artist and their work is of less value to society than almost anyone else, that what they do is too easy, perhaps a cop-out from doing something else. Nothing in this world is further from the truth and for Jez Wing’s Cousin Jac, he is to be believed with every fibre of his being.

Cousin Jac, Believe Me To Remain. Album Review. full post

(446 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

The American Dream.

Will you be content when you see the nation burn?

Comfortable in justice being done and the millions

who are suddenly afraid of you, enough to throw their hands up

in mock surrender, and who know that they could end up

choking on their own ideals.

 

The nation has sizzled under a pressure cooker so great

and for so long that it can be a surprise to the senses

that the loose flying sparks that live in the memory

have somehow not caught alight and burst into

The American Dream. full post

(259 words, estimated 1:02 mins reading time)

At The Last Post.

…and the last post rings out over the graveyard

as we recounted the sad winter’s tale.

Your bugle now safely wrapped along with your R.E.M.E. beret

as those who loved you came to mourn and mark Time in the time

honoured way.

A husband, proud, strong and decent.

A Father and Uncle much adored and who was someone to look

up to;  a brother to many who lined the aisle of the church

much like the way in which the trains

stood majestically when they had

come to a

halt.

At The Last Post. full post

(223 words, estimated 54 secs reading time)

Fables: The Mean Seasons. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The war is over and now the stirrings of a Civil War in the family has begun to grumble down every side-street and political office in Fable Town. It is though a Civil War that will have to take place without either Snow White of the father of her children Bigby Wolf.

Fables: The Mean Seasons. Graphic Novel Review. full post

(730 words, estimated 2:55 mins reading time)

The Rock ‘N’ Roll Panto, Little Red Riding Hood, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jocasta Almgill, Jonny Bower, Tom Connor, Jessica Dives, Zita Frith, Sam Haywood, Ben Mabberly, Adam Keast, Nicky Swift, Francis Tucker.

There is no place like home; even if you have got used to the décor of another place, to come home, put on the fairy wings, let the wolf have the run of the back yard and immerse yourself into a great night of magical comedy, mayhem and misrule is to have your heart filled with joy.

The Rock ‘N’ Roll Panto, Little Red Riding Hood, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(621 words, estimated 2:29 mins reading time)

AC/DC, Rock Or Bust. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Empires pass, they have to for the next stage of evolution and growth to begin, some spectacularly, some with a whimper and some…well some just turn to stone and meld into the background and always acknowledged and remembered with fondness for what they delivered in their lifetimes. Empires pass, and so do legends and for AC/DC, the time to perhaps gather dust is upon one of the greatest Rock bands to ever grace a stage and tear seven bells of Hell out of a studio.

AC/DC, Rock Or Bust. Album Review. full post

(483 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Don’t Die, Mr. Robot (PS Vita), Game Review:

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Don’t Die, Mr. Robot is an arcade game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS Vita. Infinite State Games tend to develop fun games such as 2012’s Shepherd: Mars Needs Sheep and 2013’s Frutorious that both have concepts just as unique as Don’t Die, Mr. Robot.

Don’t Die, Mr. Robot (PS Vita), Game Review: full post

(1394 words, estimated 5:35 mins reading time)

Ten, Albion. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Albion is a name that conjures up a different time, a place in which few would even think about now but for the odd semi-muted mutterings of a dusty academic or a fan of West Brom or Brighton after a win at home. The act of a union of a long gone age but which was forged in fire, diplomacy and the blood of many a soul. The coming together of the mythical Albion is entrenched though in some thoughts as the long established Manchester Rock band Ten is in others, and for them Albion is a by-word for an alliance of closely themed songs which can set the pulse racing just that little quicker.

Ten, Albion. Album Review. full post

(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

The Thoroughly Modern Muse.

“I tell you what”, she exclaimed with an annoying cackle in her throat,

“Why don’t we get shit faced tonight, it’s our big night after all

and we don’t care do we eh girls?”

The cackle spread to each of the six women like a domino

being tipped over by the last, and yet the women were surprisingly

over the age of discontent and then the phones came out to play.

The fingers danced over the tiny keys as if they had trained

all their lives in the art of pocket sized puppetry

The Thoroughly Modern Muse. full post

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

Dirt, Bonds. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It takes a Doctor who normally knows you well to prescribe you something extra that will get you out of a slump, the timely injection of the touch of prospective future genius in which to immerse yourself into. That Doctor will not leave you floundering like a salmon gasping for oxygen on the banks of raging river and with a bear looking hungrily on, he will not leave you in the dust, but he will prescribe you Dirt and the boost to the musical eardrums is opportune and sensible.

Dirt, Bonds. Single Review. full post

(370 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)