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Neil Campbell & Nicole Collarbone: Berlin Suite & Other Stories. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The stories that allow you to direct the narrative as the music sweeps you along are ones that appeal to a different, and perhaps more imaginative side of the brain. The mind sensing an opportunity to add its own colour to the art, its own tale to the endearing presence before it, will go with the flow and produce something unique, its own exclusive drama which at any time the mood changes will add more distinctive sentences and words to the already extraordinary setting encountered.

Neil Campbell & Nicole Collarbone: Berlin Suite & Other Stories. E.P. Review. full post

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

The Stranglers: Suite XVI. (2022 Reissue). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The reissue has become one of celebrity fashion, and for the lover, the admirer, the enthusiast, they are moments released once more in time that showcase the need to pay attention to what is being played out in front of you; for in the initial release you are listening to the statement put out by all concerned, studio, management, public relations, and the band, but it could be argued that the re-release, the box set, the first time on vinyl is done by the band only…others may find their input heeded, but the band, the group, if we avoid the notion of lucre playing its part, want you to hear their full and non-edited feelings…they want the unabridged sigh of contentment to be immersive, to be unshackled.

The Stranglers: Suite XVI. (2022 Reissue). Album Review. full post

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

Megadeth: The Sick, The Dying…and the Dead. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The Sick, The Dying…and the Dead, perhaps for the first time this century we are acutely aware of how we have let down those who need us most, those innocents to whom we have stepped over in the name of progress, in the name of war, of so-called liberation, in the name of many gods.

Megadeth: The Sick, The Dying…and the Dead. Album Review. full post

(506 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Shetland. Series Seven. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Douglas Henshall, Alison O’Donnell, Steve Robertson, Anneika Rose, Julie Graham, Lewis Howden, Erin Armstrong, Anne Kidd, Shauna Macdonald, Andrew Whip, Patrick Robinson, Laurie Brett, Stuart McQuarrie, Alexandra Finnie, Connor McCarry, Angus Miller, Lucianne McEvoy, Ladi Emeruwa, Grant O’Rourke.

Disasters such as The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in 1986, the Sea Empress crashing into the sound at Milford Haven, and The Taylor Oil Spill in The Gulf of Mexico, just a pinch of the disasters that have threatened the eco system around the world in the life time of us all, and yet everyday tragedies leave the local populace and the wildlife that shares the spaces with humanity looking at ruin, feeling the pain of mankind’s folly, and even death.

Shetland. Series Seven. Television Review. full post

(536 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

The Capture. Television Review. Series Two.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Holliday Grainger, Paapa Essiedu, Ben Miles, Lia Williams, Ron Perlman, Cavin Clerkin, Ginny Holder, Nigel Lindsay, Peter Singh, Lewis Kirk, Daisy Waterstone, Charlie Murphy, Indira Varma, Andy Nyman, Tessa Wong, Natalie Drew, Joseph Arkley, Harry Michell, Keira Chansa, Jack Sandle, Rob Yang, Joseph Steyne, Darren Bancroft, Angus Wright, Claire Price, Sam Hoare, Chris Corrigan, Ocean M Harris, Amy Conachan, Gemma Dyllen, Kammy Darweish, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Cory Peterson, Archie Costelloe, John King, Bonnie Baddoo, John King, Christopher Torretto, Andrew Joshi, Sandra James-Young, Henry Goodman, Joanna Burnett, David Yip.

The Capture. Television Review. Series Two. full post

(553 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Ozzy Osbourne: Patient Number 9. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Nobody’s immortal, but some find themselves immersed in immortality, dressed in clothes and outfits that will be remembered for all time, and whilst at one time you had to be a king, a queen, an advisor of incalculable resource and affinity to the realm to even be considered noteworthy by history, now, thankfully, having talent and longevity is enough to create a splash for history’s sake, and have volumes written about long after the also rans have departed this extremely mortal and fragile coil.

Ozzy Osbourne: Patient Number 9. Album Review. full post

(537 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Slade: All The World Is A Stage. Album Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We are more than just players upon the stage, we also have the responsibility of selling the tickets to this mad show we call life, we are the agents taking the cash in the small wooden booth, we are the ushers, the refreshment sellers, and we are the audience; the hats we wear, the songs we must sing, we are the response to the belief that All The World Is A Stage.

Slade: All The World Is A Stage. Album Box Set Review. full post

(592 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Lewis Wood: Footwork. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

What is Footwork but the belief that every soul can dance.

The urge to see your feet moving in time to a rhythm is universal, and even those who profess to dislike the frivolity of dancing, still enjoy the toes tapping as they accompany the mind in appreciating what they are hearing, what they are experiencing being played out before them.

Lewis Wood: Footwork. Album Review. full post

(366 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Sheila K. Cameron: With You In My Life, (Songs: Recent and Renewed). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The subtly of Sheila K. Cameron’s performance hides a voice that the listener cannot help but look to when the surroundings call for enlightenment and passion, for when the regaling of beauty and atmosphere are in tandem, the reveal is all the more sweeter for having been in its company.

Life, like music, requires constant renewal as well as novel application of thought; you cannot live on new songs alone, the structure of the enjoyment requires a previous background upon which to work, to appreciate how far you and the performer have come, but also the same songs being presented in the same way time after time becomes dull, routine, and will eventually lose their appeal unless they are renewed, have fresh breath blown into them.

Sheila K. Cameron: With You In My Life, (Songs: Recent and Renewed). Album Review. full post

(387 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Planet Dune. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Sean Young, Emily Killlian, Anna Telfer, Cherish Michael, Manny Zaldivar, Sienna Farall, Ramiro Leal, Clark Moore, Mo Smead, Grant Terzakis, Anton Kas.

There is nothing that shows the public how much you admire a piece of art than that which replicates and reproduces the key elements without going the full hog and being accused of absolute plagiarism.

Not so much a copy, but perhaps an imitation of thought, a simulation of scenes and not a mockery, a reasoned clone with its own back story, and a train of desire to cash in on the name closely associated with the original, whilst retaining the barest glimpse of what it was known for.

Planet Dune. Film Review. full post

(589 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)