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Various Artists: The Rough Guide To Jewish Music. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is to our detriment and shame that we forget all too quickly that we don’t have to fully understand something to find it beautiful and set against a world verging once more on intolerance and prejudice, from all corners, neighbour against neighbour, clan against clan, we fight above the noise and havoc, whilst never quite realising that the world is more harmonious than we believe, it just takes a moment to listen.

Doctor Who: Legends Of Camelot. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

British myth and legend has perhaps no finer example of powerful saga and hope than it does with the story of King Arthur and the Knights of Camelot; a fiction maybe, one certainly embellished and given an overall arc by Sir Thomas Mallory as he languished in prison with his days apparently numbered, but one that has stirred an immense wealth of material since, and been one of the causes of British resistance to outside forces since.

Inside No. 9: Kid/Nap. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Danny Mays, Daisy Haggard, Jason Isaacs.

A resounding fear that we push away is that somewhere, somehow, someone values us in a way that is not safe, that is harmful, a momentary possession that is against our will, and which goes further than most crimes, because of the perceived monetary worth and lack of respect that comes with the sovereignty of the body, and one that could in all concerns descend rapidly into torture, rape, and even death.

The War Doctor Begins: Battlegrounds. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jonathon Carley, Troy Alexander, Adèle Anderson, Rose Basista, Ken Bones, Nicholas Briggs, Emma Campbell-Jones, Julian Forsyth, Sarah Moss, Hugh Ross, Homer Todiwala, David Warwick.

We look at war as either the outcome, or we pick and choose the moments that we believe are the key points of significance, of the importance of scale in determining the battlegrounds that held the key to victory, or to the bitterness of defeat.

The Betterdays: Hush Your Mouth (The Betterdays Anthology). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Quieten down and listen, Hush Your Mouth and take notice of more than just the usual names to which you believe fill your musical world…the universe of aural pleasure and revelation is constantly shifting, renewing, renovating, and even in the period that you grow up in, your generation, there are bands and musicians that you will come across but somehow, inexplicably, not see how great they are, how in tune with the period, the yesterdays, the tomorrows – The Betterdays in which you found yourself singing along with life and Time, those bands were.

John Illsley: VIII. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We didn’t think it at the time but listening to Dire Straits was an experience that perhaps arguably has never been matched. The sense of appreciation has increased, the roster of former performers, the touching of genius that ran through the band in a way that bordered on enigmatic passion, has seen the players all go their own way since the break-up of the band in 1995 and produce music that has both embraced the sound that captured hearts and the imagination, and the depth of knowledge of their own loves, the music that makes their own personalities shine through.

Anvil: Impact Is Imminent. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To be in the fast lane does not always mean that you have been fast-tracked, for it is better, more productive and noteworthy to have had the engine tick over for a while as you build momentum, as you gauge the road ahead, as you watch for signs that might hinder the journey, and then as you pull out, as you ease the foot down on the pedal, you know for sure that Impact Is Imminent, not in a crash that will derail you, but for going through the barrier of belief and digging deep into the conscious of public opinion; that impact, that sense of powerful influence that comes to those who are patient and wait for the right moment to strike.

Keith Thompson: Smoke And Mirrors. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It’s all done with Smoke and Mirrors.

The sceptic would have you believe that nothing in this world is as it seems, that we are being deceived, our own belief is under attack from the fallibility of expression, the shortcomings of our naivety, and yet it is those very same sceptics who denounce the positives and embrace a negativity unworthy of human existence that will have you believe that only their word is true, that they beyond all others must be heard and lauded as if they were kings of a realm we could not hope to envisage.

Hannah Read & Michael Starkey: Cross The Rolling Water. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

No matter the transport available, you should always take up the offer of being shown what lays on the other side of the unknown, to Cross The Rolling Water and into the harbours that encompass the unfamiliar, the strangely haunting, and the mysterious new; for how else are we to suggest that we are willing to be more than just a representation of what we have always been, that if we cannot operate the oars of discovery, that if the sails or the rigging is too much for us, then we don’t deserve to be anything other than stranded in our own town and fields of close minded affairs forever.

Peacemaker. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Cena, Danielle Brooks, Freddie Stroma, Chukwudi Iwuji, Jennifer Holland, Steve Agee, Robert Patrick, Annie Chang, Lochlyn Munro, Dee Bradley Baker, Elizabeth Faith Ludlow, Rochelle Greenwood, Zak Santiago, Nhut Le, Christopher Heyerdahl, Viola Davis, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller.

Despite the often-overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Marvel does not have it all their own way when it comes to producing films and television fantasy and superhero comic book serials that capture the imagination of the viewers, even in a world where they have become the dominant force, they are arguably pushed by the appearance of the unexpected, the one series that rivals all of theirs; and in the case of Peacemaker, it is one that is absolutely and adorably near perfect.