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Cast: Johnny Depp, Arnie Hammer, Ruth Wilson, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson, Barry Pepper, James Badge Dale, Helena Bonham Carter, Mason Cook, J D Cullum, Saginaw Grant, Harry Treadaway, James Frain, Joaquin Cosio, Damon Herriman, Lew Temple, Leon Ripley, Stephen Scoot.
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In days when the abhorrence of misogynistic verbal sexual barbarity seems to be making a very unwelcome and unpleasant come back, Robin Beck and her latest album Underneath shows that no matter how some might try, you just cannot keep a good woman down.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
To a generation born in the 1970s or before, Sunday afternoons were always consigned to the part of the week labelled most dull, it was the time of the week that came after the fun and revelry of a Saturday night and the near horror of an ever encroaching Monday. It was time for a walk to somewhere there was never open, for people to have a Sunday nap after dinner with the family or if they were really fortunate, being asked to do something in the garden or even painting the window frames.
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Like many things in the world, music is an art form best enjoyed live and in the raw, not force fed down a multiplex of wires and accessible via a flick of a switch and shown on a screen with directors teasing you into believing that what you are seeing is real. Catching a band live allows a sense of belonging to something a little more than yourself and in Steve Thompson and The Incidents, alongside the millions of other bands plying their trade with a smile and a song that belief is more than real, it is realisation that art in the raw is as good as it gets.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
For anyone in the U.K. or Europe who loved their music to have an American twist then the Summer of 1983 saw Billy Joel, one of the biggest music artists ever from the United States, have perhaps arguably the most commercially incredible time of his career to date as he released the stunning An Innocent Man onto the music world.
Fitting into a year what most bands achieve in three, it’s hard to believe Splashh are still only at the beginning of their journey. Formed in early 2012 after New Zealand-born frontman Sasha Carlson and Australian guitarist Toto Vivian left the shores of the Southern Hemisphere for the grey skies of East London, they immediately turned heads with their distinctive sound – a tropical, tripped out take on swirling psych-garage, doused with insouciance, vitamin D and dizzying kaleidoscopics.
Darren Day and Niki Evans are set to star in the first U.K. tour of William Finn’s Tony Award-winning musical comedy – The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which plays at Royal Court, Liverpool on 5th – 9th November. Spelling Bee is a musical comedy that centres on the lives of six quirky adolescents who have entered into the ‘Bee’, a competition that asks the contestants to spell a variety of words, usually with a broad degree of difficulty, which is run by three equally as quirky grown-ups.
The “Purveyors of Cool” swing into town this autumn as The Rat Pack Vegas Spectacular arrives at the Liverpool Empire on Saturday 12th October. Celebrating the incredible singing talent of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Junior, this sensational show features some of the greatest music ever to be recorded.
With an abundance of class and style The Rat Pack Vegas Spectacular will transport you back in time to vintage 1960s Las Vegas hip and cool with classic songs such as Come Fly With Me, Under My Skin, Mr Bojangles, Lady Is A Tramp, That’s Amore, Mack The Knife, Sway plus many more of your favourites.
The Symphonic Grace tour will see Paloma Faith team up with the 42-piece Guy Barker Orchestra to present full-blown orchestral arrangements of her own material intermingled with classic jazz ballads, backing singers and fabulous costumes. It is the type of concert in which to expect Paloma Faith at her most epic and the show will be coming to Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall on Sunday 27th October.
Guy and Paloma will reprise some of the material they have covered in the past, but will also include new orchestral arrangements of Paloma’s latest album, the Brit-nominated Fall to Grace, including the hits Picking Up The Pieces and 30 Minute Love Affair, as well as a few other surprises on the way.
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When competing against some of the most influential Blues artists in an era when the genre seems to have flourished exponentially, with both genders quite rightly having major success, critically as well as pleasing the every burgeoning audience, to release a live album rather than a recording in which to offer something new might be considered slightly reckless. However in Oli Brown, the word reckless should never be used, it would be a wild impulse to label something so pure as irresponsible and in Oli Brown’s Songs From The Road, the laid back beauty of his work is more than enough to understand that to be captured live on recording is sometimes a good thing.