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Silent Sleep, Walk Me To The Sea. Album Review,

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are times when you don’t need to shout too hard about what you have found, the object, the piece of music or hitherto unseen action will always find a way to make itself known and inspire those who take the time to get to understand it and sit in quiet contemplation as each word, each syllable and note floats over them and through them.  Like the sea making its presence known through each grain of sand, the infiltration is slow, meticulous and all powerful.

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(376 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

The Tractate Middoth, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Una Stubbs, John Castle, Sacha Dhawan, Eleanor Bron, David Ryall, Louise Jameson, Nicholas Burns, Roy Barraclough, Charlie Clemmow, Mathew Foster.

At one time even just the name of English writer M.R. James was enough to send readers and viewers alike scuttling into the dark recess of their mind. The master of the supernatural had an uncanny way of capturing base fears and turning them into works of true genius. A true genius which in some ways has not been surpasses more than a hundred years after his first written ghost story.

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(398 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Still Open All Hours, Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 7/10

Cast: David Jason, Lynda Baron, Stephanie Cole, Maggie Ollerenshaw, James Baxter, Johnny Vegas, Mark Williams, Brigit Forsyth, Kulvinder Ghir, Sally Lindsay, Nina Wadia, Barry Elliott, Kathryn Hunt, Misha Timmins, Cathy Breeze, Sally Womersley, Emily Fleeshman, Nadine Mulkerrin.

There are some things in life that are worth re-visiting, even if it just the once. To see old characters move around in familiar ways but know that somehow they have changed, even slightly, is to understand that time must and always will move forward.

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

Doctor Who: The Time Of The Doctor. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Orla Brady, Peter Capaldi, James Butler, Elizabeth Rider, Sheila Reid, Mark Brighton, Rob Jarvis, Tessa Peake-Jones,  Jack Hollington, Sonita Henry, Kayvan Novak, Tom Gibbons, Aiden Cook, Nicholas Briggs, Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg, Ross Mullan, Karen Gillan.

It seems like a bad dream now but there was a time when the absence of Science Fiction from television, especially British Science Fiction tales, was in danger of being seen as antiquated as the thought of Medieval History. Thankfully neither genres and those that love and cherish where we have come from and where we are heading will ever lay down and let the banality of life ever let some television executives get their own way.

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(690 words, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders, The Christmas Haunting. Television Review. I.T.V.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Fiona Dolman, Gwilym Lee, Tazmin Malleson, Les Dennis, Emily Joyce, Perdita Avery, Elizabeth Berrington, Nadia Cameron-Blakey, Pamela Betsy Cooper, Paul Blair, Anthony Farrelly, Mark Heap, James Murray, Nikesh Patel, Jonah Russell, Hannah Tointon, Susie Trayling.

It is a good job that the county of Midsomer is a fictional region. Not because of the many murders, ever intriguing, ever inventive. It is the abundance of the Detective Sergeants that pass through the doors of the Police Station in Causton that make the programme, though entertaining and almost compulsive viewing, a baffling place in which regular continuality strikes real terror in the community.

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

The Escape Artist, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Tennant, Toby Kebbell, Sophie Okonedo, Ashley Jensen, Jeany Spark, Tony Gardner, Katy Dickie, Brid Brennan, Monica Dolan, Anton Lesser, Roy Marsden, Alistair Petrie, Patrick Ryecart, Stephen Wright, Gus Barry.

David Tennant doesn’t seem to have been off the television during 2013 and thank heavens for that. Not content with playing the lead role as Detective Alec Hardy in the phenomenal Broadchurch, Aiden Hoynes in The Politician’s Husband, the dashing Jean-Francois Mercier in the acclaimed Spies of Warsaw and a little matter of reprising his role as the tenth incarnation of The Doctor for the 50th Anniversary of the much beloved Science Fiction programme, let alone his work on stage for the R.S.C, it’s fair to say that the Scottish actor has never seemed busier.

The Escape Artist, Television Review. full post

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

American Comedian Jeff Dunham To Perform In Liverpool in 2014.

American stand-up comedian Jeff Dunham has announced he will bring his brand new Disorderly Conduct Tour to the U.K. next year. He will perform one of the four shows in Liverpool in what will be some of biggest performances in the U.K. to date.

Jeff Dunham’s television specials and series have been the highest rated programming in Comedy Central history, his D.V.D. sales have reached seven million units, his videos have received over a half a billion views on You Tube, and his live concerts have become mega-events played in front of sold-out arenas worldwide

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(197 words, estimated 47 secs reading time)

Bombay Bicycle Club To Perform In Liverpool As Part Of Their 2014 Tour.

North London’s most prolific and underrated band, Bombay Bicycle Club, have announced an additional show for their 2014 U.K. headline tour that takes them to Liverpool’s O2 Academy on the 15th March. This stands to be the band’s first major tour in two years and the news comes following an announcement revealing details of their fourth album, So Long, See You Tomorrow, due out on February 3rd 2014 through Island Records. Joining them on their tour is young British singer/songwriter Rae Morris, who’s From Above E.P. was released to critical acclaim and available to purchase now.

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

Laid Bare Theatre To Take Project XXX Round The North-West.

Laid Bare Theatre will take multimedia theatre show Project XXX on a 10 performance date tour of the Northwest region in January and February 2014.

Amy, a teenage feminist blogger decides it is time to prove that sex on the web is not just for men.  During a rainy summer in a northern seaside town, Amy decides to show that sexual choice is firmly in the hands of women by persuading new love interest Callum to film her first time.

Meanwhile, Callum has his own issues to deal with, including a mother on the edge of a nervous breakdown and an obsession with faded porn star Jaze.

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(351 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Sell A Door Theatre To Present Kidnapped At The Capstone.

The Capstone Theatre is delighted to welcome back the superb Sell a Door Theatre Company for one night only on January 29th as they present a new and exciting adaptation of the classic book by Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped.  The play is presented by rising playwright Ivan Wilkinson and is set against the fierce social and political backdrop of 1750s Scotland.

This fast paced, swashbuckling adventure story tells the miraculous tale of Davie Balfour as he survives shipwreck and murder to dramatically escape to the Highlands of Scotland. Perfect for young and old alike and an unmissable action packed evening, after all, ‘If life was easy, where would all the adventures be…?’

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(126 words, estimated 30 secs reading time)