Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Listening to Ben Sures’ new album Gone To Bolivia, one cannot help but be struck by the mood, the picture of life that he draws with his music in the same way that you would expect the likes of Constable, Pitman or even Frederic Marlett’s Bell-Smith to paint and observe existence, for there seems to be something much deeper going on in the subject’s appearance than first taken for granted in the beauty that is framed.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
With just one studio album to the super group’s name, to bring out a live C.D. might be considered slightly presumptuous, even possibly improper but then this is Flying Colours and when you have the outrageously good Mike Portnoy and Neal Morse of Transatlantic, Steve Morse, the beautiful resonating voice of Casey McPherson and Dave LaRue giving the audience at the wonderful venue of the 013 in Tilburg, then to be honest all you can do is sit down, and feel envious of those who made the trip to Holland and revel in the music coming through the speakers.
I hold you in my arms, I cradle you like a proud dad handing out cigars
As I breathe in the cold talons of winter that approaches
The Wiltshire town. Overhead twinkling streetlights outshine the unseen stars
And the vermin of life, rats, bacteria and cockroaches
Of which I try to keep you away from.
I hear a sound of people gathering round, tears in their
Eyes. let the public come near, let the ghoulish come
And see what becomes when the dream of life turns to nightmare.
They took your life
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Rupert Penry Jones, Phil Davis, Steve Pemberton, Claire Rushbrook, Sam Stockwell, Ben Bishop, Angela Pleasance, Joan Blackham, Michael Fitzgerald, James Woolley, Diane Kent, Charlotte Hope, Ann Davies.
The final case of the fourth series sees the idea of the evil that has been haunting the detective team in Whitechapel fixated on what was underneath the roads, the back alleyways and deep in the sewers. The sewers which take the waste out of the East End and in which a clan of cannibals have started to take the virtuous and honourable off the streets and like time, devouring them and leaving only the memory of them behind.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Freddie Mercury and Monsterrat Caballe’s operatic opus Barcelona shows exactly the type of creative and musical genius lay in the heart of Queen’s exuberant and playful front man. It also shows what his fans and the world of music have missed out on since his tragic death in 1991.
For the second year, the highlights of Birmingham’s BE FESTIVAL 2013 will embark on a national tour, introducing three more emerging European theatre companies to U.K. audiences. The festival places a strong emphasis on collaboration, participation and exchange, and each of the pieces presented have been selected for their capacity to transcend cultural and linguistic boundaries. The tour will take in Liverpool on October 22nd.
Winner of both the 1st Prize and the Audience Prize at BE FESTIVAL 2013, Out of Balanz (Denmark) presents Next Door, combining intimate storytelling with high octane physical theatre to explore what really connects people.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
“Murder is no parlour game likely to be solved on the last page but in act of terrible and terrifying significance.”, so relished with glee Dr. Lucy Worsley as she read from the book that set a new style of British crime fiction, Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock.
The final part of Dr. Lucy Worsley’s fascinating look at the British pre-occupation with murder centred on the Edwardian age and beyond. From the terrible murder involving the seemingly innocuous Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen through to the way that murder became almost sanitised, cleaned and cleansed as parlour games and the rise of cinema and its own Golden Age of Film Noir in which the murderer became the celebrity in classics such as Brighton Rock and the outstanding Alfred Hitchcock film Sabotage.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It might be an easy and somewhat flippant statement to suggest that you know exactly what you are going to get when listening to the new album from The Feeling. Not much really changes for the band, the songs are always pleasant enough, they strike the right balance between being accessible to all ages and to even those with the extremist of music tastes, should they want to try something different and away from their comfort zone that is, and between looked on as, to quote many, the fairly vulgar term of kitsch. Boy Cried Wolf though is something more.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
The trouble with having such an iconic debut album, one that shrieks gladly every time it is taken out of the Perspex holder, is that any follow up albums the artist or group does is going to have a bench mark so high that even standing haphazardly on the tallest ladder with a piece of chalk in one hand a measuring tape in the other will not come probably close to ever beating. This is the problem that has faced many bands for a long time and it’s no wonder that many artists get so disillusioned it all, only the hardy keep going.
Internationally-celebrated world musicians and jazz soloists from the Grand Union Orchestra, in association with Milapfest, present an exhilarating concert of music from around the world to the Capstone Theatre on Saturday 12th October. The show Trading Roots, features an extraordinary blend of musical styles – combining Indian ragas with Latin American salsa, Chinese melodies with jazz harmonies, Bengali songs with reggae bass-lines, West African drumming with bhangra – mixed with stunning jazz solos.