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Ozzy Osbourne: Patient Number 9. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Nobody’s immortal, but some find themselves immersed in immortality, dressed in clothes and outfits that will be remembered for all time, and whilst at one time you had to be a king, a queen, an advisor of incalculable resource and affinity to the realm to even be considered noteworthy by history, now, thankfully, having talent and longevity is enough to create a splash for history’s sake, and have volumes written about long after the also rans have departed this extremely mortal and fragile coil.

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(537 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Slade: All The World Is A Stage. Album Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We are more than just players upon the stage, we also have the responsibility of selling the tickets to this mad show we call life, we are the agents taking the cash in the small wooden booth, we are the ushers, the refreshment sellers, and we are the audience; the hats we wear, the songs we must sing, we are the response to the belief that All The World Is A Stage.

Slade: All The World Is A Stage. Album Box Set Review. full post

(592 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Britain’s Post-War Prime Minister’s Life Brought To The Stage At The Epstein Theatre This Month.

Clement Atlee Play Coincides With Labour Party Conference In The City.

A new play documenting the fascinating time in post-war history when Government changed in power from Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill to Labour’s Clement Attlee, comes to Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre this month.

The play arrives in the city to coincide with the Labour Party Conference, being held in Liverpool the same week – a deliberate and clever move by playwright and author Francis Beckett.

Clement Attlee runs for two shows at Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre on Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th September, at 8pm.

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(1035 words, estimated 4:08 mins reading time)

Lewis Wood: Footwork. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

What is Footwork but the belief that every soul can dance.

The urge to see your feet moving in time to a rhythm is universal, and even those who profess to dislike the frivolity of dancing, still enjoy the toes tapping as they accompany the mind in appreciating what they are hearing, what they are experiencing being played out before them.

Lewis Wood: Footwork. Album Review. full post

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

Sheila K. Cameron: With You In My Life, (Songs: Recent and Renewed). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The subtly of Sheila K. Cameron’s performance hides a voice that the listener cannot help but look to when the surroundings call for enlightenment and passion, for when the regaling of beauty and atmosphere are in tandem, the reveal is all the more sweeter for having been in its company.

Life, like music, requires constant renewal as well as novel application of thought; you cannot live on new songs alone, the structure of the enjoyment requires a previous background upon which to work, to appreciate how far you and the performer have come, but also the same songs being presented in the same way time after time becomes dull, routine, and will eventually lose their appeal unless they are renewed, have fresh breath blown into them.

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(387 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Planet Dune. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Sean Young, Emily Killlian, Anna Telfer, Cherish Michael, Manny Zaldivar, Sienna Farall, Ramiro Leal, Clark Moore, Mo Smead, Grant Terzakis, Anton Kas.

There is nothing that shows the public how much you admire a piece of art than that which replicates and reproduces the key elements without going the full hog and being accused of absolute plagiarism.

Not so much a copy, but perhaps an imitation of thought, a simulation of scenes and not a mockery, a reasoned clone with its own back story, and a train of desire to cash in on the name closely associated with the original, whilst retaining the barest glimpse of what it was known for.

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(589 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)

Murder And Mystery’s afoot As The Scousetrap Is Set At The Royal Court Theatre.

Join the Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre this autumn as they uncover a sinister plot being hatched on home soil. The Scousetrap is a brand-new show, which has everything from crime-drama to thriller to comedy. This murder mystery written by Kevin Fearon and Cal McCrystal, takes place in Liverpool in 1940. The Germans are trying to invade the city and the city’s greatest private detective, Miss Marble, has been called in to help. The cast are in rehearsals putting together a show that is going to have our audience gripped, and no doubt there’s going to be murder.

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

Sue Harding: Darkling. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Nowhere in England perhaps encompasses the feeling of open beauty, of revealed fables and secret language as that of the West Country. Its accent, the sometimes-insular belief and its welcoming arms can keep the confidential close to its heart whilst allowing the rest of England to view its soul with astonishment and grudging respect.

There is nothing vague or ill-defined about the life and heartbeat of the West Country, its music, its art, its belief, and the measured darkness, is blunt in its delivery, even with the voice that carries kindness and trustworthy approach, and it is because of the darkling, the ambiguous that becomes more entrenched the further you investigate its inner shores.

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(422 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Monica Taylor: Trains, Rivers & Trails. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In celebration and commemoration, that is how the marking of time is meant to show how much we care about an event, or indeed the human spirit that may have created or been instrumental in its happening.

Surrounding herself with the appreciation and insight of the American sage of Woody Guthrie on what would have been his 110th birthday, Monica Taylor, The Cimarron Songbird brings her own stories of ‘dirt roads, home, fence posts and trains’ to the fore in the haunting and yet fulsome new album, Trains, Rivers & Trails.

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

Ed Harcourt: Monochrome To Colour. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The sense of reveal that is to be found when a person is presented with a picture of the past that has been taken in black and white, and that in which the hues and shades have been colourised are obviously jaw dropping. The spectacle of the monochromatic and its mood of silence, of era’s framed by coal dust and darkness, given life, given purpose in memory is startling, and yet both serve the photograph voyeur with meaning and with passion.

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