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Murder Returns To St. George’s Hall In 2014 With Lovehistory.

Following on from the sell-out success of two Murder at St. Georges Hall events in 2013, Liverpool’s premier Murder Mystery events company Lovehistory, return to Liverpool’s grandiose St. Georges Hall with three confirmed events for 2014, on Saturday 15th February with Crime & Passion: A Victorian Valentine, Saturday 28th June with a Dickensian Special and Thursday 27th November with a Christmas Special and all three events are now on sale.

Lovehistory present the biggest and best fully interactive Murder Mystery dining experience, set within the grandeur of one of the city’s most famous buildings, 400 guests will be wined and dined and will bear witness to murders most foul in an evening filled with deception, intrigue and murder that will leave them baffled.

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

The Passing Of An American Way.

The taste of Whisky still lingers in memories that I cherish

As I remember sitting at your table with Nancy and a group of friends

Playing cards, no money

Exchanged, the bet, a story from my travels

Round a country that you had been proud to serve and call home.

You smiled in amusement at my capacity to tell a story

And to drink and drink and drink.

We had met the once

In a bar

In a small Wiltshire City where the Greyfisher reigned

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(300 words, estimated 1:12 mins reading time)

The Waterboys, Gig Review. Liverpool Philhamonic Hall. (2013)

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In recent times Mike Scott and his band The Waterboys have given audiences in Liverpool some of the best nights out imaginable. To start their latest tour in a city they patently enjoy performing in is a high compliment to the crowds that make their way to any venue the band would make their way to.

The range of the music, the sense of drama that Mike Scott exudes though makes the Philharmonic Hall a natural stopping off point and whilst perhaps nothing could compare to the theatre provided when they performed tracks from their stunning album An Appointment With Mr. Yeats, this celebration of the album Fisherman’s Blues was none the less greeted like an old friend by the audience.

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

Ragz, Gig Review. Liverpool Winter Festival, St George’s Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are certain musicians that when they leave the stage after a gig they leave a gaping hole so large that it never seems possible to ever fill it again. The gig may have been tremendous but that lingering presence is enough to just fill the evening with the slight tinge of regret. Imagine then the wake of rippling, surging emotions for a city who had taken a musician of sterling quality under their wing and adopted, as it is that city’s right to do so, to find that she was going to finally go back home to her native Norway. That hole for many looked deep, bleak and never ending.

Ragz, Gig Review. Liverpool Winter Festival, St George’s Hall. full post

(455 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Thom Morecroft And The Full Moon Band, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are many hundreds of reasons for the unshakeable belief that Liverpool’s music in the early part of the 21st Century is something to savour, to relish and enjoy, not to keep closeted away in some dusty attic room and for only a handful of people to nod sagely at but always going back to the moment that music in the U.K. really started.

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(557 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Jack Omer, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Staying in is sometimes too tempting an offer. The chance to baton down the hatches, especially in what could be a cruel winter, is not just tempting, it can be so enticing and you would only be human to succumb. However in an area that really makes other places, towns and large urban societies look upon it with envious eyes when it comes to its abundance and well attended music venues, that temptation must be fought and beaten, especially when you come across a support act for a major star that just gets every musical juice flowing and the blood pumping round a body that is desperate to be assured that it’s alive.

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

Alexandra Jayne, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

As with anything in life there are slow burners and there are instant attention grabbers. The slow burners sparks, splutters and struggles against the prevailing wind but ultimately wins through and burns very bright. Then there are the attention grabbers, the ones that clutches at the heels of the interested viewer, listener, interloper and effects how they look at everything, both are valid and both, if nurtured, will stay long in thoughts of those moved in the musical sensually.

Alexandra Jayne, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(456 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

The Pied Piper, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Edwina Lea, Emma Hirons, James Michael Doolan, Nathan Smith.

The Pied Piper is one of those rare stories that can both enthral and beguile and disgust and terrify at the same time, it is no wonder it is such a firm favourite of lovers of fairy tales and that it is ripe for re-telling in as many different ways as you can imagine on the stage.

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

Little Red Riding Hood, Theatre Review. The Actors Studio, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Gemma Broderick, Barrie Ryan English, Catherine Rice, Leroy Liburd.

If you go down to the woods today…you might meet a few characters from a classic fairy tale that don’t exactly fit the stereotype and certainly never behaved in such a way before. From a wolf with aspiration issues to a young girl in a red hood that’s far too small and who has changed from the sweet person of memory in a teenager whose concerns are now more to do with the embarrassment that her Karaoke loving mum causes, this re-telling of the story of Little Red Riding Hood at The Actors Studio is guaranteed to be enjoyed by young and old alike.

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(368 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Clutching At Straws, Come What May. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

All the world’s a stage and the sense of theatre can be found in almost every human interaction. For alternative Folk quartet, Clutching At Straws, their debut release of Come What May is a set of songs that glide almost effortlessly between the hard hitting conscious thought, of a different way of living and the hint of illusion in what apparently is important in modern day society. The sound of four men whose undisputed talent keeps them pace ahead of the rat race they are urging others to avoid.

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