Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
From humble beginnings of a young girl from Kings Heath in Birmingham, the rebellious nature shone through early with acts that thrill the heart such as setting off a multitude of clocks from underneath the stage of her school that disrupted a speech from the then Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher, and which led rightly to her being hailed within a few short years as the Queen of the British Punk movement.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We are in danger of losing a vital part of our humanity, what makes us special as a species; not just losing, but actively, with shame, almost insisting with every fibre in our being that Art of any shade serves no purpose to the human condition, that we cannot strive forward if we cling to the notion that we gain nothing from the world if we give it beauty, if we place emotion where absolute logic should be.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Everything we ever believed we desired has arguably turned sour, the so-called Post War dream has more than begun to resemble a nightmare, and the world, once drenched in the fine ideas of change and the hopes of 1960s counterculture, has become a liquid fire, a mantra of dissolution and despondency.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We take a slingshot at life in the hope that it will bring down giants and monsters in our path, forever the underdog, we could end up being the unlikely winner in a game that we didn’t sign up for but which has left us with little choice but to outfox those who stand in our way and stand tall as their shadow looms over the proceedings, and for some, for those who see Karma as a weapon of truth then the slings afforded us are positive grooves in which to beat any Goliath with.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There is always a kind of unbalance to the world when you hear a bunch of songs for the first time at a gig several months before the album that they appear on is unleashed on to the conscious of the listener. It does always feel as though it is the wrong way round, a state of confusion that perhaps prepares you for the peace of a listen at home already acquainted with the dynamic, but which robs the actuality of sentiment and core memories later down the line as expressed in a group setting designed to inflame the senses and have the listener roll with every emotional punch available.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Giants & Monsters sees the return of one the most influential Heavy Metal bands to the front of the genre’s mass appeal, and in a year when the German group celebrate 40 years since they released their eponymous debut E.P. and later on that same year the towering Walls Of Jericho, Helloween, once again guided by the three originals of the band, Michael Weikath, Kai Hansen, and Markus Grosskopf, have placed before the masses a sense of continual cool as their new album creates certainty and an air of devilish mayhem to enjoy.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Annabel Baldwin, Jon Culshaw, Jack Myers, Hannah Brown, Alan Cox, Abigail Cruttenden, Mark Elstob, Louise Faulkner, Jason Forbes, Harriet Kershaw, Tom Kiteley, George Naylor, Andrew James Spooner, Sam Stafford.
When the American Science Fiction series Vwas aired on British television, it caused a sensation for those with the foresight to sit down and take in the spectacle and dynamic of a storyline that is one of the finest examples of alien invasion to ever be part of television history.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Alex Austin, Hannah Brown, Camille Coduri.
The reunion many have actively awaited for, for one of the shortest runs that a companion had with a single Doctor that certainly deserved more than a single season, more than just 13 episodes, and yet from the revival episode of Rose through to The Parting Of The Waves, Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper captivated a nation of fans with their dynamic and emotional resonance as they fought Autons, The Gelth, members of family Slitheen, and Nanogenes that rewrite human physiology, and all the while, and despite the darkness of one of the biggest surprise endings to a series ever concocted, they faced the universe with humour and a friendship that arguably hadn’t been seen on screen in the Who Universe since Jon Pertwee’s incarnation of the mad man from Gallifrey and the marvellous Sarah Jane Smith.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Consistency, such a resounding achievement in any field, let alone artistic, is to be as lauded as that which comes from those who see the application of success as only one of creative ups and downs and continual disruption that leads to an output of extremes.
The variation of extreme might have some drooling with anticipation, but for the multitude the sheer ability of reliable dependability is overwhelmingly fierce, it shows a narrative of textured nuance that has been carefully thought out, fleshed and ironed with devotion, and in the solid and endearing rock group, FM’s latest album, Brotherhood, is a lesson in steadfast critically positive drive and ambition, strengthened by the infectious groove of the songs that pump blood and blow the mind.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
When a poet speaks the whole world should tremble, people should listen with full attention and be silent, for a poet, unlike a politician of any persuasion or coloured rosette, has nothing to lose by using their voice to speak out or up for that which vexes society, there is no promise or delusion, only frank words designed to highlight and comfort, to place anger or shoulder the lie, and the spoken word of the poet should offer nothing but a truth.