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Rusty Shackle: Under A Bloodshot Moon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The view from Under A Bloodshot Moon can often be more enlightening than that which illuminates brightly or even that which surprises in a Blue Moon serenade. It is the colour of reveal and rebellion, the phase of Earth’s satellite that conjures up images of war, of revolution, and sometimes, the warning of pleasure taken too seriously, and when that image is focused upon the desire to be taken in by the art on show is overwhelming and full of promise and delivery.

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(379 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Grace: Looking Dead Good. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: John Simm, Amit Shah, Christina Chong, Craig Parkinson, James Tarpey, Kristy Philipps, Richie Campbell, Michael D. Xavier, Mitchell Hunt, Alex Price, Cassie Clare, Rakie Ayola, Owen Roberts, Sidney Kean, Sally Edwards, Laura Elphinstone, William Andrews, Brad Morrison, Henry Miller, Callum Coates, Steven Elder, Darren Tighe, Matt Barkley, Boo Golding, Lauren O’Neil, Nicholas Khan, Adrian Rawlings, Louis Boyer, Austin Hardiman, Robyn Ashwood, Katie Brayben, James Barriscale.

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

Grace: Dead Man’s Footsteps. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Craig Parkinson, James D’Arcy, Zoë Tapper, Richie Campbell, Laura Elphinstone, Brad Morrison, Rakie Ayola, Dave Lynn, Katie Clarkson-Hill, Caolina Valdés, Margot Leicester, Michael Bertenshaw, Jake Fairbrother, Alexander Cobb, Clare Calbraith, Steven Hartley, Elizabeth Rider, Brian Pettifer, Amy Conachan, Nick Warnford.

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(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Joe Pug: Nation Of Heat -Revisited. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We should be grateful that we live in a time when the word mulligan can represent more than just a do over in a round of golf between friends.

An artist’s vision is to be respected, enjoyed, to be seen as the ultimate authority in the world they have created on canvas, in the darkness of the lonely hours afforded the writer as they gaze at the blankness of the screen and the pressure of bills mounting at their door, how they must envy the poet whose scribblings are never truly finished.

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(519 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

History Of Guns: Forever Dying In Your Eyes. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It’s that look you see when something you held on for, lets you go. Whether it is a group, a belief, a person, a parade of ideas that once could have changed the world, or just the simple remains of humanity, it is the knowledge that as you stare into the pupils of the one who matters most that you see them Forever Dying In Your Eyes.

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(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

From On High they Swoop.

White beaked Messerschmitts

take vantage position

on the decaying church roof

as they crowd and wait

with piercing eyes

the early morning frenzy

of laid down black bags

the parcel corpses of the bread,

too far gone for morphine,

and they attack on mass.

The streets are filled with caw bullets

sprayed

and laughed by brains

so small

these creatures of the air,

and yet they know

our habits,

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(143 words, estimated 34 secs reading time)

Your Presence.

Your life, in pictures,

is a reminder

of how I feel about You.

You are beside

My working desk,

You overlook me,

as I stretch and yawn

in the middle of the night, you

as a child

when I had to leave,

You

as an adult that has made me afraid…

Your presence

has filled me with love,

and it has driven me

to question, to anger, to fear…

I miss you always,

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(96 words, estimated 23 secs reading time)

Amy Hopwood: Into The Woods. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What do we see when we investigate the heart of the darkened woods? Some will see fear, the conjuring in their minds of creatures that are base like, driven by primal urges, a place where ghosts and demons, witches and hermits make their play with human kind, and others, they see beauty, they feel the peace that the shade provides, and it is no wonder that these two dividing opinions are at the heart of centuries old traditions and folk lore, tales that inspire, and frighten in equal measure.

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(448 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Liz Hedgecock: In Sherlock’s Shadow. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Every armchair detective lives In Sherlock’s Shadow, we might beat Morse to naming the murderer, we could expose the criminality and corruption quicker than Poirot, the insurmountable Miss Jane Marple, or the devilishly understated Columbo, but compared to Sherlock Holmes we live in cramped tiny houses that act as minds, we are hemmed in by our own conduct and appreciation of the darker forces that are involved in the underworld, the far reaching tentacles of crime that never ceases to be operational, that never sleeps in search of control.

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

Walter Trout: Ride. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We spend the vast majority of our lives running from a past that is willing to be patient, cruel enough to let us run, hitchhike, Ride, our way ahead and then slowly, surely, and with fierce grinning teeth, whisper down our ears that it there, right behind us once more, waiting for us to stop and give into the inevitable.

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(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)