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H. Jack Williams: Something About Hope. Album Review.

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.

Barry Briercliffe: The Freedom Of Our Childhood Hearts. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

By the time we understand, it becomes too late to enjoy what should be one of carefree learning and play, filled with unconditional love and surrounded by those who only want the best for us; never again to we feel The Freedom Of Our Childhood Hearts, the best we can do is too make sure those we bring into the world are blessed with such fortune.

Bookish. Series 1. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Mark Gatiss, Polly Walker, Connor Finch, Elliot Levey, Buket Kömür, Blake Harrison, Tim McInnerny, Paul McGann, Joely Richardson, Daniel Mays, Rosie Cavaliero, Gerard Horan, Anton Antoniadis, Tom Forbes, Amanda Drew, Ella Bruccoleri, Angeliki Papoulia, Jonas Nay, Harry Taurasi, Mark Umbers, Hannah Snow, Amanda Payne, Mark Winstanley, Chris Brooker, Charlie Cattrall, Michael Workeye, Elizabeth Berrington, Amanda Payne, Mariken van Lammeren, Mark Benton,  Loveday Smith, Luke Norris, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Shaniqua Okwok, Rina Krasniqi, Isabelle Connolly.

The Who: Live At The Oval – 1971. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

The chances of a new studio album from The Who are to say the least minute, an almost impossibility, that whilst would be welcomed by the fans, would surely be argued would go against the grain of declaring that the latest tour is certainly the final time we would see them live; a studio album would deflect that certainty, it would be an expectation of bank balance taking priority over ethics and high music morals.

Amit Dattani: Wrong Kind Of One. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We often, in a modern setting, proclaim heroism when there is no such reality to our statement, we overlook the fight that a person may have had, the sense of sacrifice, the damage that comes with the continual punishment of grinding away at the surface of the soul; instead placing our congratulations at the feet of those whose success comes from a random act of serendipity and not pain or loss on a personal level.

Dominant Chain: Wasteland Requiem. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The wastelands no longer belong to the teenagers of Generation X, thanks to political mismanagement by all, our structure of society is under threat thanks to the greed of those who not only saw the opportunity to make a fast buck, but to control the world in their image, like some new found God, their will be done by all, and we are to blame for allowing it to happen.

It could be considered too late to rectify, that the service we hold off from performing, the funeral song for our species and planet is nothing more than a Wasteland Requiem, a lament for all that was once held with dear appreciation.

Titanic: Ship Of Dreams. Audio Documentary Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There have many beautiful ships to have graced the seas of our lonely planet; some have had voyages that are memorable, a few to have been engaged in active serve as well as been the courier of hopeful human dreams, and a selection that have had their name carried across time for the mystery, for the events that surround their fate, their destiny, and their tragic end.

There is though surely no other ship that has caught the imagination of the public, past and present, than the illustrious, and ill-fated Titanic.

Ghosts Of Sunset: California Girl. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

What makes the image of the California Girl so iconic, one of sun, warm seas, a dream sold to the idealistic and the dreamers never short of cash; the girl was a concoction of post war affluence and political will delivered by propaganda and desire, and one that persists in the minds of the everyday and the visionaries ready to make fantasies come true.

Robert Jon & The Wreck: Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When we are afforded time to truly immerse ourselves into our passions, something resplendent and incredible can be witnessed to have taken place; like magic being waved over those with drive, imagination and ability, but who lack Time due to outside forces commanding their attention, what transpires is a sense of purity revealed by light.

We live in a period of time where we are punished for nourishing our souls, others finding fault with our need to fulfil our promise and making demands on every second as if they are the sole dominant force in the universe.

UFO: No Place To Run. Album Reissue Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To be able to look back with hindsight and understand the sheer hiding to nothing that UFO were under as they released their first album without Michael Schenker for the first time since 1971’s UFO 2: Flying is to know that Rock’s perpetual cycle of renewal is what keeps it fresh, forceful, and unpredictable.