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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Ching, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun, Rebecca Romijn, Paul Wesley, Adrian Holmes, Carol Kane, Melanie Scrofano, Dan Jeannotte, Bruce Horak, Mia Kirschner, Gia Sandhu, Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero, Jerry O’ Connell, Greg Byrk, Clint Howard, Martin Quinn.

To view a series with the foreknowledge of what may happen to many of the characters in the future is one that in most circumstances would arguably lead to viewer apathy, the storyline hoped for always standing in the shadows of the decline and death of a main player just so that they can feel the emotion of loss and excitement.

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(515 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Joe Bonamassa: Blues Deluxe Vol.2. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Often a performer will acknowledge the influence of a band or songwriter in a way that an odd song will creep into their repertoire on stage or feature with a wistful air of appreciation on an album; it is a more than a nod to the past, it is a tribute that all who create art must admit to if they are to be seen as sincere and earnest about their craft.

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

The Brand New Heavies: Never Stop – The Best Of The Brand New Heavies. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Never Stop…for the moment you do you run the risk of people believing you have become an irrelevance, you become forgotten, only finding your name being mentioned in passing in a popular evening gameshow or recalled as the music for an arthouse film’s midway credits.

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

Miracle Workers: End Times. Series Four, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Karan Soni, Jon Bass, Ithamar Enriquez, Erin Darke, David Dastmalchian, Annie Mumlo, Lisa Loeb, Quinta Brunson, Jon Daly, Garcelle Beauvais, Tim Heidecker, Paul F. Tompkins, Ego Nwodim, Kyle Mooney, Sascha Compère, Lolly Adefope.

Whoever thought of casting Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi together in Miracle Workers must be preserved for their intelligent and off the wall mind.

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(397 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Ian David Green: Songs To The Dust. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We scatter dust to the wind when time has reached its end, when that faithful friend has left us and we wish to ensure that they travel onwards, that their force, their soul, will keep being part of the world and all it can envision beneath its wings.

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

Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 2. Big Finish Audio Drama Boxset Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Paul McGann, Alex Kingston, Nicola Walker, Hattie Moran, John Banks, Robert Bathurst, Kirsty Besterman, Mark Bonnar, Hamish Clark, Paul Marc Davis, Andrew Dickens, Cory English, Derek Ezenagu, Vincent Franklin.

Time to regroup and allow the mind peace after what amounts to a battle of survival is one that is denied to the vast majority of the world, for we inhabit a world run by mad men who insist that constantly been overrun is good for the heart, that we must be kept busy otherwise we are run the risk of being labelled and judged as feckless, insolent, or even cowardly.

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(510 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

3: Rockin’ The Ritz: NYC 1988. Album Review. Album Reissue.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The brightest star can be seen for only a short time, that does not mean its value is diminished, it does not mean that it only exists in our memory for the least amount of time, it just reflects the volume of luminosity that it offered as its brief  reign was felt by all who saw it, who was influenced by its appearance, or who have only found its existence through the mention of a greater power. That star will be forever astonishing.

3: Rockin’ The Ritz: NYC 1988. Album Review. Album Reissue. full post

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

The Woman In The Wall. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ruth Wilson, Simon Delaney, Philippa Dunn, Mark Huberman, Hilda Fay, Abby Fitz, Daryl McCormack, Ciara Stell, Frances Tomelty, Dermot Crowley, Caoimhe Farren, Cillian Lenaghan, Stephen Brennan, Rory Corcoran, Liam Heslin, Lynn Rafferty, Chizzy Akudolu, Ardel O’Hanlon, Eimear Morrissey, Charles Abomeli, Brendan McCormack, Aoibhinn McGinnity, Helen Roache, Anne Kent, Fiona Bell, Dominic Anglim, Brian Doherty, Genevieve Hulme Beaman, Brendan Conroy, Nicolas Nunes de Souza, Sodem Solana, Alexandra Moloney, Anthoy Kinahan, Frank O’ Sullivan, Fiona Browne, Orla Gaffney, Eoin Gleeson, Karen McCartney, Michael O’Kelly, Aisling O’Neill.

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(487 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon 3: Trapped. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Billie Piper, Em Thane, Camille Coduri, George Asbury, Heather Coombs, Lorraine Horgan, Holly Jackson Walters, Akshay Khanna, Chelsea Little, Robert McCafferty, Bailey Patrick, Cleo Sylvestre.

When we know the outcome, we may be distracted from learning the truth behind the tale.

For many, the fact that we have been taught to repeat facts ad nauseum, parrot fashion so that for example we can quote the dates of factory acts, of F.A. Cup finals, of Nobel prize winners with certainty, we forget to delve closer to the human being affected by or instrumental in the cause of history being made, altered, or even in some cases saved.

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(497 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Huey Lewis & The News: Sports. 40th Anniversary Release. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

With all respect intended, the 80s were arguably the moment when popular music hit its absolute zenith. The 60s were magical, the 70s illuminating, but the 80s seemed to bring music completely to a different audience that required a diversity of sound, the first sense of expanding genres, blurring them, marketing them with aggression, the battle to be the hero or heroine on the walls of the new teenagers, the Generation X wave and to make the most of the new modes of delivering sound to the senses…that was the moment when it truly reached its moments.

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(490 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)