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Gareth Heesom: Ever See. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

All that you ever saw, all that was lost to time as memories jostle for attention like moths dancing awkwardly around an orange light, some who have their wings singed as they fluttered greedily towards the light, some that find they can only catch the light on occasion as they slowly begin to fade and become forgotten in the dark…all that you will Ever See, is what remains when love and time collide to create the art we hold close to our hearts.

The Classic Rock Show. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. Gig Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

For many the sound of various anthems, hits, and obscurities that came their way via the beauty and inner workings of the local pub juke box, was an introduction to a memory that would inspire, stimulate, move and arouse in equal measure, and be the backdrop to the days when the world was cast in shadow; it only takes a line, a moment on the drums, a scintillating vocal, that guitar – that instrument of expression which to many a rock sound would simply not exist, for the world to make sense.

Quarry: Positioning The Sun. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

No matter where we find the best place to be seen Positioning The Sun, we must make sure that the no shadows can be observed spoiling the view; they can enhance it, add a flavour, texture, a sense of the dramatic and illusion, but the view must never be soiled for the want of darkness in the wrong and unwanted place.

John Jenkins And The James Street Band, Trying My Best (To Get Away From You). Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

When we find that moment of pure genius, we should embrace it fully and without reservation.

We can fully understand what it is like to be on the cusp of outrageous brilliance, and even seeing genius in someone else is never beyond our grasp; but when it comes our own way, when the parade of virtuoso performance is acknowledged as coming from our own endeavours, we may be reluctant to nod in approval for fear of being appraised as arrogant, over confident that the feeling captured will last an eternity; instead we should thank the stars and shout with damnation at the negative emotions, “Trying My Best (To Get Away From You)”.

Romantic Getaway. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Romesh Ranganathan, Katherine Ryan, Johnny Vegas, Harrie Hayes, Phaldut Sharma, Neil D’Souza, Julie Legrand, Jordan Coulson, Mensah Bediako, Jackie Morrison, Stephen Samson, Jerry-Jane Pears, Chris Aukett, Charlie Brook, Alwyne Taylor, Charles Baker, Martin Buchanan, Mara Allen, Billy Clements, Alexandr Delamere, Tom Davis, Lila Garrad, Jules Brown, Adam Young, Melissa Phillips, David Bresnahan, Farshid Rokey, Steven Jeram, Simon DeSilva, Chris Robb, Lindsay Townley.

What could be the most desired event in your life you could make happen without stepping across a moral line.

John Blek: Until The Rivers Run Dry. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is a certain kind of loyalty which makes itself known when an artist can finish a project within a timeframe that to some may appear quick, but to others who understand fully that the dedication observed is one that has come from having, in essence, everything almost worked out before you even step inside a studio.

Whilst there is a commendable Avent Garde spirit to be found in going with the flow, the sense of structure could be found to be missing, or at least unseen by the naked emotion of those in the vicinity of the process and those to who will hear, sense, dream, or touch the result with adoration.

Gloria Taylor: Sun. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Make hay whilst the Sun shines, or take the inspiration of the view that you behold when the clouds have been bested, when the darkened skies of misfortune and ill ease have been banished, and allow the healthy benefits of a clear mind to take you to a place that you might have sighted on occasion, but never been permitted to experience, that of peace, of tranquil repose, and the cease-fire of all hostilities imposed by others.

The Estate. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Toni Collette, Anne Farris, David Duchovny, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kathleen Turner, Ron Livingstone, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Danny Vinson, Gichi Gamba, Patricia French, Eric Esteban, Kim Baptiste, Billy Slaughter, Ronald Chavis.

The things we do for love are never as sincere or biased as that in which we do for a sizeable inheritance.

Harrison Tonks: In The Middle Of The Night. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Play me a memory that I haven’t got to yet…

Life will always surprise you, if you allow yourself to wade in waters that you don’t know. The guidebooks may hint at the discovery and delight to be found in strange depths of human experience, the pictures and small descriptions might urge you to dip your toe, but until you do so In The Middle Of The Night and away from the glaring daylight, the experience, the joy, will remain truly out of sight, unknown.

Kelly Bayfield: Wave Machine. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Music is the Wave Machine to which our minds respond in peaks and troughs.

Our hearts may melt at the spoken gesture of a Shakespearean Sonnett, our eyes may mist at the sight of a Constable’s Haywain or grow inclined to embrace a surreal portion of Dali’s expression, we can even wax lyrical ourselves when describing a momentous piece of architecture to a person who cannot see, but music, the sound and emotion that accompanies a human voice as it seeks to address the joy, the love, the fear, the hatred and damage, of the grief caused by existing in the now, that is the sheer drive that causes the Wave Machine to be our constant friend and guide.