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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)

Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado: Navigation Blues. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To be called prolific is normally reserved by those who are unsure on how to best describe the mountain of extraordinary work put in by an artist, the writer, the musician who keeps the style intact across volumes of their own imagination, their own fierce stamp on the world, for to be called prolific is both a sense of admiration, and a side swipe, what would be a finer and more desirable term is high volume creativity, or in the case of Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado, inexhaustible excellence.

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

Siskin: Flight Paths. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Even in solitude we must endeavour to believe in contribution, for the lonely pursuit requires a meeting of minds somewhere along the path, whether from the sibling looking on in awe and wonder, or that person whose heart you have touched with just a simple anecdote elongated to create a tale so incredible that they live to hear it retold again; solitude may be the big bang of creation, but it means nothing unless someone is on the same Flight Paths as you.

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(364 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Wave Of Destruction. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, John Leeson, Phil Mulryne, Karl Theobald, Alex Wilton Regan, John Banks.

We take radio for granted now, in much the same way as television, as any device that allows us to hear the words of another several thousand miles away from home, and yet we must remember what it must have been like to experience that sensation for the first time, the moment that radio burst into the home and allowed, for example, cricket fans to enjoy a day at Old Trafford, the first outside broadcast from The Albert Hall, and allow old soldiers to hear The Last Post from fields in France as commemorations of World War One were held to honour the fallen…we take radio for granted, but in the hands of dark forces, that benevolence of human spirit and endeavour can be turned against us

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(439 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Six-Headed Shark Attack. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Brendon Auret, Thandi Sebe, Cord Newman, Naima Sebe, Tapiwa Musvosvi, Chris Fisher, Meghan Oberholzer, Jonathan Pienaar, Nikita Faber, Caitlin Harty, Charlie Keegan, Jessica Cloete, Marie Cavanna, Paul Gardyne, Wilco Wilkens, Stephen Pankhurst, Joanne Tan.

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

Murder At Yellowstone City. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Isaiah Mustafa, Thomas Jane, Anna Camp, Zach McGowan, Ron Garritson, Gabriel Byrne, John Ales, Aimee Garcia, Richard Dreyfuss, Lew Temple, Nat Wolff, Emma Kenney, Scottie Thompson, Isabella Ruby, Marley Gray, Eadie Gray, Danny Bohnen, Tanaya Beatty, Lia Maria Johnson, Joe Nichols, Scotty Bohnen, Brandon Lessard, Tim Montana, Jenna Ciralli, Kate Britton, Emily Rasmuss, Cooper Nusbaum.

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(481 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Vampire Of The Mind. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Colin Baker, Alex MacQueen, Neil Edmond, Kate Kennedy, Catriona Knox, Elliot Levey, John Standing.

That moment when an old adversary is in town and you don’t know whether to avoid them like the plague, or greet them on their patch with a knowing smile in which you are the one carrying the means of their destruction, the choice is flattering, the decision is absolute, and it is one that we rarely get to follow through upon because of propriety, because we are human.

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

Angie Waller Brings Her Tough Old Bird To The Unity Theatre This September.

From Nana Funk, the great-great-grandmother of good times, comes a heartfelt musical journey of exploration, inspired by real life events and stories.

Tough Old Bird explores how women are viewed in society as they have the absolute gall to get older! Have you ever noticed those adverts promising to ‘defy the effects of aging’? Ooh Nana hates them. What about when we get old? Where’s the instruction manual? Who deems what is ‘acceptable behaviour’? What happens when your voice isn’t listened to, or you become slowly invisible?

Join Nana as she asks the big questions! Aging well doesn’t mean behaving yourself.

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(292 words, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)