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The Prisoner: Volume Three. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Mark Elstob, Lucy Briggs-Owen, Alicia Ambrose-Bayly, Jim Barclay, Richard Dixon, Barnaby Edwards, Genevieve Gaunt, Jennifer Healy, Lorelei King, Glen McCready, Sarah Mowat.

The price of losing your own individuality is more than you think, more than you can afford, and more than society can bear as the race for hegemony of all continues on with relentless pursuit and fearful dominance.

Inside No.9.: The Last Weekend. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Sheila Reid.

“Beware the fury of a patient man”.

The question of how long and how far you would go in order to exact revenge on the one that destroyed you is one that is dangled before us in the darkness, perhaps whispered by a friend when the Devil is on their shoulder, the one who wants to know just how far you are prepared to go so they can either aid you, or have their statement and story ready when the police come knocking on their own door.

A Small Light. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Bel Powley, Joe Cole, Live Schreiber, Billie Boullet, Ashley Brooke, Amira Casar, Ian McElhinney, Sally Messham, Andy Nyman, Nichlas Burns, Rudi Goodman, Caroline Katz, Liza Sadovy, Laurie Kynaston, Noah Taylor, Sebastian Armesto, Bill Milner, Sean Hart, Hanna Van Vliet, Eleanor Tomlinson, Jim High, Cosima Shaw, Tom Stourton, Daniel Donskoy, Dylan Edwards, Sarah T. Cohen, Vicki Pepperdine, Victor McGuire, Jeff Rawle.

Bibby: Every Day. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To wake with a song in your heart is beautiful, to feel it return Every Day is nothing short of a miracle, one that we need to embrace more by taking apart all that threatens our equilibrium and our sanity.

Start the day with a voice that pleases, herald the dawn with a sense of music that gives pleasure, and tackle the foes who ground our mental health down with wave after wave of new songs that spur the imagination and refuse to let us begrudge the past, only add to it, give it texture and flavour that gives the day a sense of the hopeful eternal.

Graham Nash: Now. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We have become embroiled and entrenched in the moment. Our capacity for concentration has diminished, our long terms goals have been reduced to the short-term win; everything we have as a species worked towards has been placed in chaos by the appearance of not being able to see beyond the present minute, from some living in the now and not the forever.

Yes: Mirror To The Sky. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Time is the great leveller, and yet in some cases we have found ways to observe the continuation of that which would have once slowly faded away. Indeed, such is the pulse of various music artists, or groups, we can now witness the possibility of such longevity that a band could feasibly live on in one form or another indefinitely. 

Art is meant to outlive the artist, that is the sacrifice of the human soul as it creates from dust that which fascinates long after the illustrator of the human expression has left this mortal coil for the next adventure.

Guardians Of The Galaxy: Vol .3. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Chris Pratt, Karen Gillan, Chukwudi Iwuji, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Pom Klementieff, Dave Buatista, Vin Diesel, Maria Bakalova, Sean Gunn, Will Poulter, Elizabeth Debicki, Sylvester Stallone, Linda Cardellini, Asim Chaudhry, Mikaela Hoover, Judy Greer, Nathan Fillion, Benjamin Byron Davis, Molly C. Quinn.

From surprise smash hit to mainstay of the franchise, Guardians Of The Galaxy has done enough to be equal to many of the tales brought to life from the graphic novels of Marvel to the big screen, and perhaps in timely honour, it is only right that the final scenes, for now at least, have seen the mixed bag of characters endear themselves into the public perception.

Confess, Fletch. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jon Hamm, Roy Wood Jr., Ayden Mayeri, Lorena Izzo, Kyle MacLachlan, Annie Mumolo, John Behlmann, Anna Osceola, John Slattery, Lucy Punch, Marcia Gay Harden, Robert Picardo, Eugene Mirman, Kenneth Kimmins, Caitlin Zerra Rose, Aaron Andrade, Travis Bennett, Nhumi Threadgill.

Fletch lived, briefly but with all the attention that Chevy Chase could muster in the two adaptions made for cinema when he was one of the undisputed kings of American film. Fletch lived, but cinema can be fickle, it can just as quickly destroy as it can create, and after 1989’s Fletch Lives became but a distant memory there was probably no hope that Gregory McDonald’s popular creation would project its neo-noir investigative detective would be back to confront the sins of those without a sense of humour again.

Roger Powell: Blue Note Ridge. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Whist many insist melancholy is the abuse of suffering by the individual, for some it is the arguable truth that it acts as more of a progression to motivation than that captured by the belief of utopia. Utopia may be the ultimate dream, but to get there you must understand that the beauty in your possession is a symbol of the everyday release of expression that comes from allowing the soul to search for the serenity gifted by the melancholic memory.

A Man Called Adam: The Girl With A Hole In Her Heart. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Girl With A Hole In Her Heart is one in need of attention, that requires care and nurturing, for the hole could be a void, it could be the missing part that makes her see the world with a different mindset, and one only cured by listening to her voice as she allows those feelings to escape, to flood the body with the love she has always wanted to share with another soul.

That sense of sharing, of offering, comes thick and fast in the brand-new album from the electronica legends, A Man Called Adam.