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Thom Morecroft, Moon Moon Shake It. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If all roads lead to Rome, then does the River Mersey beckon with its delicate welcoming sound of its history and people and toss and crash of its deep blue water for musicians far and wide to take residence beside its shores and bring something of their talent and then infuse the artist’s natural gift with something solid, something incredible? Many it seems are called to Liverpool, countless are even chosen and the city of absolute culture embraces them, for Thom Morecroft, a man from the wilds of Shropshire, and his album Moon Moon Shake It, it seems that enticing wink from the Mersey has captured a man who will not let anything stand in his way.

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

Tragedian, Decimation. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Decimation, either a slaughter or annihilation, a battering of the senses in which the only chance you have of salvation is keep on playing the album until you work out exactly why the new album by German Power Metal band Tragedian seems so formidable.

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

Reuben Archer, Personal Sin. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Reuben Archer’s pedigree stands before him like an outstretched monument, adorned with the knowledge that it symbolises something extra, that little piece of musical ingenuity that many strive for but just fall short of. It also takes an incredible talent to pull the amount of superb guest musicians to perform on his debut solo album and when you have the supreme gift of genius as Magnum’s/Thunder’s Harry James, Status Quo’s John ‘Rhino’ Edwards, Neil Murray, the great Luke Morley and Paul Raymond on the album, then it’s not so much as a Personal Sin, but a statement of special intent.

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

Legendary Musician Ian Anderson To Return To Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall in 2014.

Legendary Prog Rock icon Ian Anderson has announced a 2014 22 Date U.K. tour, which will follow the release of his new concept album to be recorded early next year and released around Easter.

The U.K. tour begins in late April and goes through May; the show will feature a selection from his new 2014 release concept album – which he defines as ‘Folk-Prog-Metal’ together with a selection of Jethro Tull highlights. The upcoming record release will feature heavier, less acoustic guitar sounds and more of Anderson’s trademark flute. The tour will also take in Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall on May 2nd 2014.

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Thomas Dolby To Perform At Liverpool’s FACT Cinema This September.

Thomas Dolby, musician, record producer and, now, award winning independent film-maker has announced a U.K. tour in September and October 2013.

The British Synth player had chart success in the 1980s with hits like Windpower, Hyperactive! and She Blinded Me With Science before coming back with the phenomenal A Map of the Floating City which included the excellent Evil Twin Brother, Spice Train and The Toad Lickers in an album that was one of the finest releases of 2011.

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(417 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Marcella Detroit, The Vehicle. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Albums come and go, pop stars appear and disappear with frightening regularity and yet the artist digs away at your soul with a kindness and sincerity that those who litter the charts of popularity can probably never hope to achieve. The artist stays in the listener’s heart and makes themselves at home forever. Even with a large distance in time between albums, what comes along can be thrilling, soulful and takes the listener on the next stage of their life hand in hand with them.

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(414 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Liverpool Legend Bill Shankly Remembered As David Peace Launches Red Or Dead At Epstein Theatre.

As favourite adopted sons of Liverpool go, perhaps none come much bigger or more adored than the legendary football manager Bill Shankly. Even those who don’t come from the city and don’t support the team he managed so successfully can only but admire the man who took the club from the depths of Division Two and made them the most remarkable and well-regarded club in the country.

Ahead of what would have been the great man’s 100th birthday in September, the author David Peace talked about his new book Red Or Dead with highly respected journalist Brian Reade to a packed and appreciative audience at the Epstein Theatre on Hanover Street.

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Crime And Punishment To Fit The Bill At The Playhouse Theatre.

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic novel, will be staged this autumn at the Liverpool Playhouse with George Costigan as detective Porfiry whose suspicions about a double murder lead him to play’s main protagonist, student Raskolnikov, played by Adam Best. This new adaptation by Chris Hannan is directed by Glasgow Citizens Theatre Artistic Director Dominic Hill and will be at the Playhouse from Tuesday 1st to Saturday 19th October.

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Liverpool’s Little Atoms Announce All Female Music Line Up For Their In Conversation With Lynda La Plante.

Little Atom Productions are delighted to announce the first all-female music line-up in their hugely successful Liverpool ‘In Conversation’ series, whose next interview subject is legendary Liverpool crime writer Lynda La Plante at the stunning Concert Room at St George’s Hall on Tuesday 10th September.

The events feature five separate musical acts, each of which performs one of the famous interviewee’s five favourite pieces of music. The series so far has seen acts as varied as a classical guitar rendition of Are Friends Electric? by Tubeway Army and a 25-strong Baroque choir from Waterloo singing music by Henry Purcell but this will be the first time all five songs are performed entirely by women.

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Ready Steady Cook Live To Set The Taste Buds Tingling At The Empire Theatre.

Combine one green pepper, a red tomato, Lesley Waters, Russell Grant and Aldo Zilli, with the biggest and best T.V. cooking show. Add a dash of laughter and sprinkle generously with outrageous entertainment. Drizzle with plenty of fun, mix well and spread liberally over the Liverpool Empire.  Ready Steady Cook Live! Is the perfect recipe for a sizzling night out!

Ready Steady Cook Live! the long-awaited tour of the U.K.’s most successful T.V. cookery show, will hit the road, travelling the length and breadth of the country from September 2013, calling at the Liverpool Empire on Wednesday 12th March 2014.

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(475 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)