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Vinyl Floor: Funhouse Mirror. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10

If we have been fortunate in life, at some point we have found ourselves by the seaside, at the fairground, the sand and vast water calling in unison, but the smell of engine oil, of the mechanical thrill capturing our attention as dodgems, penny drops, helter-skelter’s light up the horizon, and the house of reflections, the Funhouse Mirror the stand out opportunity to see how life would shape you if you were caught in a world of misshapes, in a plane of distortion and buckling mis-representation.

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(426 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Murder In Provence. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Roger Allam, Nancy Carroll, Keala Settle, Patricia Hodge, Kirsty Bushell, Geff Francis, Samuel Barnett, Ashley Russell, Janet Amsden, Jonathan Aris, Christophe R. Tek, Jeremy Clyde, Damola Adelaja, Scott Chambers, Paul Bazely, Holi Dempsey, Benedict Clarke, Alex Felton, Cara Horgan, Shadrach Agozino, Yasmin Taheri, Crispin Redman, Jasmine Hyde, Robbie Gee, Thomas Vernal, Sara Powell, Leila Mimmack, Flora Montgomery, Melanie Gutteridge, Nico Rao Pimparé, John Light, Richard Sargent, Ben Jones, Mark Adams, Louise Delamere, Lizzy McInnerny, Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Max Gold, Liran Nathan, Rachel Mariam, Asheq Akhtar.

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(498 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To imagine being part of a significant part of history is to recognise the problem with self-importance, we cannot help but play the hero, our ego insists we are placed at the revolution to either save lives or take them, we believe in these scenarios because we cannot understand how we would be a passive observer during chaos, change, and alteration.

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(540 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Laura Benitez And The Heartache: California Centuries. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We must understand that the utopia we crave is a nightmare for others, for if they lose control, if they lose the ability to silence us, then they would rather burn the world to a cinder than ever give us the chance to rectify their mistakes. We are told we are not able to understand the complexity of the problem, that it takes their keen sense of business, their drive alone that can banish the problems they created and lead us into a place where time is better spent.

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(502 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Chicago: Born For This Moment. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

However you may view life, its various ups and downs, its trials, tribulations, its fierce traditions, and its unexpected triumphs, we see the moments that pass us by and wonder what if, only to realise later on down the road that something else entirely was the reason that you were born to tackle, that you Born For This Moment.

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(468 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Grace: Dead Tomorrow. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Rakie Ayola, Brad Morrison, Laura Elphinstone, Craig Parkinson, Zoë Tapper, Clare Calbraith, Seham Aar, Shamail Ali, Faith Alabi, Ellis George, Daniel Adegboyega, Richie Campbell, Lucy Phelps, Lu Corfield, Alec Newman, Joséphine de La Baume, Amina Koroma, Jayne McKenna, Antony Byrne, Carolina Valdés, Stephen Boxer, Rebecca Scroggs, Ernest Kingsley Junior.

The harvesting of human organs for profit is an abhorrence, to kill for the body piece is to desecrate the bond that civility and humanity insists upon.

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(526 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Jethro Tull: Thick As A Brick. 50th Anniversary Reissue.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Written as a response to the music press as the seminal album Aqualung was still deep in the minds of the listener, Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick is considered by many as the ultimate concept recording, and whilst fans and advocates of Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway or Pink Floyd’s The Wall might disagree with loud, and argumentative vocal voices, there can be no argument that what the members of the band put together in 1972 has resonated, found its way into folk lore, has become, in a word, legendary.

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(489 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Suspect. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: James Nesbitt, Imogen King, Sacha Dhawan, Sam Heughan, Antonia Thomas, Richard E. Grant, Joely Richardson, Niamh Algar, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Miller, Tabitha Green, Adam Kiani, Adele Marie, Alexander F. James.

Originality is a scarce commodity, and even then, the chances are it has been done before, but that doesn’t stop the belief that what you are witnessing is a novel approach to an age-old problem, that of how to entertain, educate, and inform, whilst keeping the attention of the one who has invested their time in your product, in your story.

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(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Dynasty: Final Advent. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We all make that final journey, be it a spiritual encounter when the breath is short, or the reckoning we have with our past, a final moment in the shade of our decisions, at dusk’s closing eye, we make the last moment count.

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(435 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

When Rivers Meet: The Flying Free Tour Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We don’t perhaps appreciate enough the facility and ease of modern technology that allows us to still to be able to believe in the power of being there, that we can in part spend time perhaps with our favourite artists via a world of the unhindered view and the less than appreciative interloper readied with a supply of drinks and inane, loud conversation.

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(476 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)