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Liverpool’s Echo Arena Is Dreaming Of A Barry White Christmas In 2013.

This December, Echo Two at the Echo Arena Liverpool has a grown up festive treat in store for theatre lovers when the only Christmas-themed show in town, Dreaming of a Barry White Christmas, premieres at the venue from Tuesday 17th – Saturday 21st December 2013.

The first ever Christmas show from renowned Liverpool playwright Dave Kirby, whose hilarious hit shows include, Lost Soul, Council Depot Blues, Reds and Blues and Brick up the Mersey Tunnels, Dreaming of a Barry White Christmas promises to be the perfect way to spice up the festive period!

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

Mississippi’s The Weeks To Come To Liverpool.

Mississippi’s brightest new export, The Weeks, have announced details of their return to the U.K. The band will take in twelve shows starting in Brighton on the 16th October and finishing in Manchester on October 29th. The tour will also take in Liverpool’s East Arts Village on Seel Street on October 19^th.

This will be the band’s second full U.K. tour after supporting the Kings Of Leon earlier in the summer. The tour took in arenas around the U.K. and Europe, including two nights at London’s O2 Arena. They also completed their own club tour and an appearance at the Hard Rock Calling Festival.

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(214 words, estimated 51 secs reading time)

Lewis Fieldhouse, Born Human, Raised Human. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Sat in front of a stereo, or stood in a venue under the glaringly sympathetic eye of the performer and listening to music is perhaps the best slice of Heaven any human being can hope to have. It transcends almost any other pursuit save actually playing the often exquisite notes and receiving the nods of hopeful approval from the listener. Although the word divine brings up the idea of something celestial or perceived God-like state, it is as close to the delight you feel when listening to Lewis Fieldhouse’s new E.P. Born Human, Raised Human.

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(294 words, estimated 1:11 mins reading time)

The Real Great Escape, Television Review. B.B.C. 4

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * * *

The 1963 film The Great Escape which starred Steve McQueen, James Garner, Donald Pleasance, Charles Bronson and Richard Attenborough is one of the iconic motion pictures, alongside Escape From Sobibor, that represent forever the spirit shown by Second World War prisoners of war or those incarcerated in death camps in their attempt to escape their surroundings. However the film, no matter how thrilling, never really captured the man behind the mass escape from Stalag Luft III, the resilient and self-assured Roger Bushell.

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

LoveHistory Presents Another Murder At St George’s Hall This Autumn.

Lovehistory, organisers of Murder at St George’s Hall, possibly the biggest murder mystery event in the U.K. (and most definitely to have been seen in Liverpool) are delighted to announce a spooky second outing for this event on Halloween, Thursday 31st October, after the initial event on Friday 13th September sold out within weeks!

With 250 guests and taking place in the magnificent and atmospheric surroundings of the Great Hall itself, the stories featured at the events will be based on criminals’ trialled at the Hall’s famous courts.

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(560 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Bulgakov’s Masterpiece, The Master And Margarita, Comes To The Unity Theatre.

Unity Theatre and Lodestar Theatre are proud to present one of the greatest ever novels being brought to life in an epic new adaptation. The Master and Margarita is a riotously funny multi-layered story that combines the love affair of the century, Satan’s visit to Moscow, the final days of Christ and a fantastical cast of supernatural and historical figures.

Bulgakov’s wild imagination is brought to life by the Unity Theatre and the award-winning Lodestar Theatre using video, puppetry, magic, animation and performance to create an extraordinary show. The Master and Margarita is adapted by Max Rubin, runs at the Unity Theatre from Tuesday 1^st October till Saturday 12^th October.

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(206 words, estimated 49 secs reading time)

The Rides, Can’t Get Enough. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

When one door closes on a the time of a supergroup, a window slides open somewhere with enough room for another to wiggle their way into the hearts of the music buying public’s affections. So one group stops, another all-star line-up is more than ready and extremely adept at keeping the music flowing and In The Rides, comprising of legendary musician Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills and Nash, Buffalo Springfield), the incomparable Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Blues and Rock survivor Barry Goldberg (Electric Flag), the music flows on Can’t Get Enough as if being conducted by a master infront of the world’s finest orchestra.

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

Brit Floyd Returns To Liverpool With A Bigger And Better PULSE For 2013.

Having performed to over a half a million fans around the world since its first show in Liverpool, England in January 2011, The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show, Brit Floyd, returns to the U.K. in October and November 2013 to present P-U-L-S-E 2013, The Pink Floyd Ultimate Light & Sound Experience, a stunning new three hour show. This will feature note-for-note performances of five full album sides, including Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, The Division Bell, and, in celebration of the 40th anniversary, Pink Floyd’s classic defining album, The Dark Side of The Moon.

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(268 words, estimated 1:04 mins reading time)

Asking Alexandria, From Death To Destiny. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * *

With a crack of wandering displaced electricity, the imagined smell of discharged cordite hanging sheepishly in the air and the heavy anticipation flowing through the veins, the sound of Asking Alexandria’s latest album, From Death To Destiny, cautiously makes its way through the wires and detonates with a force of neutron star fading and its potency being slightly smothered with a well-used pillow.

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(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Soul Sister, Theatre Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jenny Fitzpatrick, Chris Tummings, Msimisi Dlamini, Helena Dowling, Katy Lye, Maria Omakinwa, Tamara McKoy-Patterson, Rob Eckland, Amaziah Davis, Michael Paver, Kenton Noel, Tony Qunta, Justin Shaw, Adam Nash.

When it comes to the life of global superstar Tina Turner, the truth is so much more interesting than fiction could ever be. In the latest production to come to the Liverpool Empire Theatre, that life comes to full sparkling fruition in the stunning and outrageously brilliant and musically divine Soul Sister.

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(531 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)