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MaYan, Antagonise. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

In a world that seems to become more corrupt, more fraudulent in the way in the way that as people, as citizens of a global community, we are treated, spied upon, taken to task for having the temerity in poking our heads above the ramparts and questioning the right to anybody knowing everything about lives, it seems the more somebody dares pose their doubt, the more tighter the grip becomes. Told who we must hate, despise, loathe, keep an eye on for, be like the two worst and vile extremes of human surveillance that the 20th century forced upon a Europe that slept walked almost into death, too few people speak up to point out what is wrong with the world.

MaYan, Antagonise. Album Review. full post

(384 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Suzanne Vega, Tales From the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The end of one decade and the start of another in your life always brings about the chance to reflective with what you have achieved and where you see your life going. It is only right that as you grow, your 20s and your 50s are wildly different and perhaps more contemplative, more attuned to a world that at points feels as though is crumbling down right around you and the urge to set it right for the those following on behind.

Suzanne Vega, Tales From the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles. Album Review. full post

(405 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Satirist Mitch Benn To Perform At The Epstein Theatre on February 28th.

Described by The Times as “The country’s leading musical satirist“, Mitch Benn has been a favourite for more than a decade on B.B.C. Radio 4’s Now Show.

His new show, coming to the Liverpool Epstein Theatre on Saturday 22nd February, combines his Scouse upbringing, his love of music and a lifelong obsession with Liverpool’s most famous sons. It is most definitely not a tribute show and while his affection for his subjects is well documented, expect the satirical twists for which Mitch is well known. As Mitch himself says, “Many have claimed the title “Fifth Beatle”. They can’t all be right; some were righter than others…”

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(249 words, estimated 1:0 mins reading time)

The Australian Pink Floyd Set Their Controls On Liverpool.

The Australian Pink Floyd Show is proud to announce that their 2014 “Set The Controls…” European Tour is on sale now.  The tour will draw heavily from the iconic The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Division Bell albums but will also feature an element that will allow the audience to choose the material that the band plays in certain sections of the show.  There will be 21 U.K. dates – including a show at the Echo Arena, Liverpool on March 1st.

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(414 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

The Wizard Of Oz Comes To Knowsley Leisure And Culture Park.

An international star of pop band S Club 7, an Eastender’s soap star and Citv star are set to join forces on May 24th and 25th at Knowsley Leisure and Culture Park in The Wizard Of Oz!

The venue’s May half term production of The Wizard of Oz will see S Club 7 pop star Tina Barrett delight with a truly evil performance as the Witch of the West opposite Eastender’s star Melissa Suffield as Dorothy and star of Citv’s Hi 5 Chris Edgerley.

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(579 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Bella – Queen of the Blackfriars Ring, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Denise Kennedy, Andrew Frizell.

Whitechapel has produced more than a few characters of ill repute and more than a few of notable glory over the last couple of centuries but arguably none were like Bella Burge. A woman who typified the spirit of the East-End, who on her 11th birthday walked through the same misbegotten streets as Jack the Ripper, who was taken in and apprenticed by one of Music Halls leading lights, trod the boards herself, married a championship winning boxer only to see him arrested as part of a bank fraud/betting scam three weeks later in Liverpool and who in the end became the first woman Boxing promoter in the world. Bella Burge is ripe to spoken of just as highly as anybody from the East-End.

Bella – Queen of the Blackfriars Ring, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(475 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Inside No 9: Sardines. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Timothy West, Anne Reid, Ophelia Lovibond, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Katherine Parkinson, Tom Key, Luke Pasqualino, Anna Chancellor, Marc Wooton, Ben Willbond.

There is something quite wonderfully chilling in having Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton back on television together. Even without their League of Gentlemen co-star Mark Gatiss around, the chemistry, the pleasing abundance of visual darkness and comedy that filters through to make great and worthy programmes is enough to make you weep tears of joy as you become yet again embroiled into their latest world.

Inside No 9: Sardines. Television Review. full post

(442 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: The Flying Club. Television Review. I.T.V.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast:  Neil Dudgeon, Gwilym Lee, Tamzin Malleson, Robert Bathurst, Phil Cornwell, Bernard Cribbins, Pete Meads, Jacqueline King, John Duggan, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Lee Nicholas Harris, John W.G. Harley, Susan Fordham, Lucy Phelps, Chris Nighingale, Martyn Mayger, Barrie Martin, June Whitefield, Geoffrey Whitehead, Sara Stewart, Lex Shrapnel, Laila Rouass, Oliver Rix, Francesca Zoulewelle.

For many the past is never too far from their minds. It is what has shaped them into who they are. The past should never be truly be forgotten either as it by that assumption that the mistakes, the often to terrible to contemplate mistakes, come back to haunt you.

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(501 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Russell Watson To Perform At The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall This March.

The U.K.’s best-selling classical artist Russell Watson will be embarking on a massive U.K. tour in March 2014 including a night at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Joining Russell is Jonathan Antoine who rose to fame on Britain’s Got Talent as part of the duet “Jonathan and Charlotte” performing in front of an audience of 14 million and winning over the nation’s hearts. Jonathan is a classically trained tenor and is currently taught by Sara Reynolds at J.R.A.M. Jonathan also appeared at Russell’s charity show in Preston last December which raised money for the Katy Holmes Trust.

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Sofie Jude, My Elusive Heart. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are few genres of music that polarise opinion more than Rock/Opera. Music lovers usually refer to the album Bat Out of Hell when they want to show how good it can be when the right combination of perfect voice and right songwriter/producer are beside them, for arguably the immense, silky voice of Meat Loaf has never been better when he had the deftness of music skill in Jim Steinman plugging away beside him, nor perhaps when that double act was complimented by the addition of the terrific Ellen Foley as female vocalist on some of the tracks.

Sofie Jude, My Elusive Heart. Album Review. full post

(460 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)