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Steve Hackett: The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

To reach such an immense, magnificent, anniversary as a golden celebration, one steeped in memory that has a collective following almost chomping at the bit, awaiting it seems interminably for any sign of life from the artist that might sweep the multitude off their feet as the salute to the past is garnered with extra meaning, satisfaction, almost carnival like appreciation for memorial of how dear the memory remains.

Gypsy’s Kiss: Piece By Piece. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Piece By Piece the picture takes shape and reveals itself in whole; like a jigsaw puzzle where the objective is to find the frame before the detail, we are often confused in life and see the image first before we lay the foundations and the surrounding borders, the pieces making sense but not in the order where they are most effective, where the beauty of the scene laid bare will be at its most enlightening, its most enduring, and palpable.  

Greg Amici: Tragicomic. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Many a New Jersey artist has found fame and fortune by being everything that New York isn’t. It is almost as if the bright lights that shine down on Lady Liberty reflect into the distance and catch the temple and tempting boardwalks so close to the Atlantic edge and seek refuge in the towns of Wildwood, Ocean City, and down into the beautiful scenic drives down to Cape May Court House and the memories of the old lighthouse as it keeps souls safe from harm…and by doing so offer the musician and favoured artists something that their neighbours in New York never have, an experience of a rough and beautiful tragedy buoyed by the bittersweet moving romance .

The Croft: Play Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Liza Goddard, Gracie Fellows, Caroline Harker, Gray O’ Brien, Simon Roberts, Russell Layton, Judith Rae, Rheanna Trueman.

Life is an echo of what was once a story, memories, ghosts, remnants of where tales go when they need to be resurrected to make the living think, to give them reason to understand the effects of the past on the present.

To be cut off from civilisation is akin to be forsaken by Time, everything moves at a different pace, the void between reality and what we perceive as apparitions, ghosts, visitations, is such that those echoes reflect our sense of space when there is little or no company to ward off the meaningless and the agony of our mind at work.

Ghosts (U.S). Series Four. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rose McIver, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Brandon Scott Jones, Danielle Pinnock, Richie Moriarty, Asher Grodman, Rebecca Wisocky, Devan Chandler Long, Román Zaragoza, Sheila Carrasco, Betsy Sodaro, John Hartman, Tristan D. Lalla, Arthur Holden, Stuart Fink, Nigel Downer, Christian Daoust, Cat Lemieux, Punam Patel, Caroline Aaron, Cody Crain, Kathryn Greenwood, Christian Jadah, Steven Yaffee, Odessa A’zion, Mary Holland, Crystle Lightning, Deniz Akdeniz, Matt Walsh, Neil Crone, Jessie Ennis, Dean Norris.

Whiskey On The Rocks. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rolf Lassgård, Anders Mossling, Artur Svorobovich, Kestutis Stasys Jakstas, Andrius Bialobzeskis, Filip Berg, Mark Noble, Niklas Engdahl, Per Ragnar, Harry Jansson, Per Lasson, Anders Karlsson, Rolf Lydahl, Oskar Vygonovski, Elsa Saisio, Daniel Hansson, Vytautas Kaniusonis, Adam Lundgren, James Studdert, Giedrius Kiela, Albinas Keleris, Philip Hughes, Vladislav, Onischenko, Jekaterina Makarova, Andrew Lowery, Cecilia Forss, Anton Lundqvist, Katrin Sundberg, Andrius Ziurauskas, Annika Nordin, Jörgen Persson.

Snowpiercer. Television Drama Series. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Mickey Sumner, Alison Wright, Sean Bean, Lena Hall, Iddo Goldberg, Kate McGuinness, Susan Park, Sam Otto, Sheila Vand, Roberto Urbino, Mike O’ Malley. Annalise Basso, Jaylin Fletcher, Steven Ogg, Rowan Blanchard, Chelsea Harris, Archie Panjab, Clark Gregg, Michael Aronov, Happy Anderson, Kerry O’ Malley, Timothy V. Murphy, Aaron Glenane, William Stanford Davis, Vincent Gale, Karin Konoval, Tom Lipinski.

Doctor Who: Pursuit. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Paul McGann, Emma Campbell-Jones, Sonny McGann, Felicity Cant, Louise Falkner, Clive Hayward, Lizzie Hopley, Wanda Opalinska, Indra Ové, John Ramm, Vineeta Rishi, Sam Stafford, Dan Starkey, Niky Wardley.

The Time War continues to rage around the eighth incarnation of The Doctor, and with fortune, and the conundrum that continues to perplex him in the form of Cass Fermazzi is causing fractures in his personal relationship with his great-grandson Alex; and as the four stories that connect Pursuit play out so the drama of fall out is one of cracks in spirit, and splinters in time.

Books Of Blood. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Britt Robertson, Anna Friel, Rafi Gavron, Yul Vazquez, Freda Foh Shen, Nicholas Campbell, Andy McQueen, Kenji Fitzgerald, Paige Turco, Saad Siddiqui, Glenn Lefchak, Brett Rickaby, Matt Bois, Etienne Kellici, Cory Lee.

Clive Barker is one of those rare horror writers to whom any adaption of his work seems to transfer to the medium of cinema with consummate ease, unlike many of his peers and associated writers, he has found the transfer one of unregulated temptation, of knowing that the thrill is in the blood and one that the readers of his books take with them to their heart when they immerse themselves in the big screen view.

Freya Rae: Divergence. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Captivated is the heart when it finds itself focused on a sound that feels as though a door has been opened nearby and the sweet smell of petrichor wafts through on the breeze and leads you to a place where you know the intensity of everyday bombardment has been nullified and that remains is calm and the difference of eased pressure.