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PurpleCoat Productions Bring The Classic Noises Off Back To Liverpool.

If you haven’t already sorted out your festive entertainment this year, there is a hidden gem lurking in the wings courtesy of Liverpool’s PurpleCoat Productions. They’re staging the hilarious farce Noises Off in January, and it’s all double-takes and slamming doors and promises to be packed full with belly laughs.

“It’s absolutely ridiculous!” laughs the show’s director, Karl Falconer. ‘It’s about a group of awful actors trying to stage an old-school sex farce, except that they all hate one another, and the set keeps falling to bits, so it’s really a farce about a bunch of people failing miserably to put on a farce!’

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Dreaming Of A Barry White Christmas, Theatre Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10

Cast: Andrew Schofield, Alan Stocks, Paul Duckworth, Gillian Hardie, Keddy Sutton, Lenny Wood.

Before a word is spoken inside the Echo Arena, before Andrew Schofield and Alan Stocks pass that wonderful look between them and the marvellous Keddy Sutton manages to bring her array of much loved admired voices to the table, just to know that these six amazingly funny and versatile actors are about to bring Dave Kirby’s work to life, there is already a broad smile on the audience who braved the December storms to watch Dreaming Of A Barry White Christmas.

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(527 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Voices Of Angels, Songs For Christmas. Various Artists. Album Review.

For the second time this year, many people across Liverpool and beyond have thrown their weight behind something extraordinary in aid of the chosen charities for the Lord Mayor of Liverpool’s 2013-14 charity fundraiser.

Following on from the magnificent The Battle of The Atlantic C.D., the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Mr. Gary Millar, and a vast array of musicians and producers have bought out a Christmas album, which not only tugs at the heart strings wonderfully but also reproduces a real meaning of the season, not one of vast nameless companies making unfathomable profit in which to allegedly put into off shore accounts, but one of hope and feeling for everyone we come across.

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(390 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Jimmy And The Revolvers, Sunday Morning. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To anyone had the misfortune not have been around when the sound of music from Liverpool dominated the charts and audiences every couldn’t get enough of the Merseybeat, the constant niggle of not seeing some of the legendary bands and musicians perform live, to having that tingle of excitement when the fledgling radio stations dare play a song by the ever increasingly popular music is something that you have to push down deep into the pit of your stomach and walk away before the evil and destructive nature of jealousy becomes too over whelming.

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

Lucan, Television Review. I.T.V.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Rory Kinnear, Christopher Ecclestone, Paul Freeman, Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack, Leanne Best, Gemma Jones, Alistair Petrie,  Lasco Atkins, Ann Bell, Tim Bentinck, Alexander Bracq, Helen Bradbury, James Bradshaw, Alan Cox, Benjamin Dilloway, Rupert Evans, Julian Firth, Michael Gould, Claudia Harrison, Leo Hart, Erick Hayden, Robert Horwell, Kevin Hudson, Jane Lapotaire, Olivia Llewllyn, Ruth McCabe.

The passage of time has never seemed to erase any interest or mawkish fascination in the case of Lord Lucan and his alleged crime of murder, in fact like Jack the Ripper nearly 90 years before him or Dr. Crippen, the more years pass, the stronger the interest seems to get, human nature becomes overwhelming in the search for the truth; even when that truth will certainly never be found.

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(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

On The Night Of Each Year.

on the night of each year

the miller would sit with

his quern-stone

 

hoary, and rolling on rynd,

it always names him the river;

quondam! river dust!

 

but, on this night, with the stone

in quiet repose; its aye,

its anything, every

 

for it can’t be tomorrow, when

water again must engage the burr,

and new, and past, returns

Andreas Dahl 2013

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Iain Till, Oh, Sweetheart Of Mine. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is always a time to de-clutter, to take away the excess, the pomp and circumstance and just go back to a stripped back version of everything, to listen to a set of songs that just play along with the idea of simplicity and high value.

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(379 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

The Strypes To Perform At The East Village Arts Club In 2014.

Having already proved themselves to be one of the most thrilling live bands of 2013, The Strypes are pleased to announce details of their first U.K. headline tour in February 2014.

This year has been a momentous one for The Strypes. Not only have they released their debut record Snapshot which reached number 4 in the U.K. charts but they have also toured far and wide including numerous sold-out head line shows, huge festival slots including Reading and Leeds and Glastonbury, and have recently played some of Europe’s biggest arena’s supporting Arctic Monkeys.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer Omnibus, Volume One. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When Sarah Michelle Geller burst onto the television screens in 1997 as Buffy Summers, the reluctant Vampire Slayer who typified a growing confidence in women being given meaty roles, a whole generation of viewers were hooked. In the days before the genre seemed to become over saturated with young girls fighting off the attentions of vampires who wanted to kill them or romance them, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a breath of fresh air in a field that had become tired and almost mundane, so mundane that even comedy pastiches were as tired and anaemic as a Vampire at a N.H.S. transfusion run on the day when nobody is around to give a pint.

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(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Award Winning Production, One Man, Two Guvnors, To Come To The Liverpool Empire Theatre.

Nicholas Hytner’s award-winning comedy One Man, Two Guvnors will be embarking on an extensive tour of the U.K. and Ireland from May next year and will visit the Liverpool Empire from the 1st – 6th September 2014.

The show will open at The Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield on the 12th May 2014. The tour will also visit cities including Aylesbury, Birmingham, Dublin and Wolverhampton. (Dates and venues to be confirmed.)

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