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“Time Flies Over Us, but leaves its shadow behind”, and what a mighty shadow is to be felt when someone, anyone, finds themselves stepping off the train at Lime Street Station, when they cross the Irish Sea and see in the shimmering distance the graces, the welcome of history wrapping its arms around the visitor.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Sadly, Europe and the wider community is once more under the kind of threat that makes the Godfather of British science Fiction H. G. Wells’ quote “War to end all wars”, seem ever more populist for its time, and despite the brilliance of the man, almost arguably arrogantly absurd to believe such an event was ever possible.
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To own your name is the ultimate action of any rational mind, to deny such an experience of personality, to decry the limelight, the searchlight of existence is to be forever welcoming the shadows.
The nom de plume and the group embrace is a noble release, it offers sanctuary in a world too eager to tear down the reserves of the soul and offer temptation in the form of recognition, the riches of identification, especially in a world framed by creation and by possession of artistic rights. Yet, to own our words, our gestures, our thoughts and titles of the moments we have brought into the world is not so much about possession or proprietorship, it is the registering of the fact that we were here, at this time, and this was our contribution to society, to community.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
For Geoff Carne it was never about what was left, it was always about continuance, the sheer love of creation, so even in the wake of retirement by the colossus that is Mike Hatz, Geoff Carne took the road unbroken and alongside The Raw Rox Band, Arby ‘Slash’ Rockman, Jim Black, Zoki Jovanoski, and Bob Calvery, the muscle, the memory, the music has found a place which honours that what was, but is unafraid to march forward, to take perhaps a different, and in the case of the new E.P. Love Gun, more uninterrupted and giant resounding sound.
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The Seasons come and go, some with the bluster of a damaged ego, some with a lazy haze that seeps into the bones and makes us lay in hopeful pastures overlooking bubbling swimming streams. The personality of each season may not be of concern to the vast majority of humanity, more troubled by the unease of the monthly, daily, change of events, but it must be noted that as the cold anger of February and the war like heat of August shape our lives, so to do the seasons, the high council of climate and time, have the right to be felt and appreciated by even the smallest of creatures.
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Those Footsteps On The Broken Road that we hear beside us belong to the soul that wants to take our hand and accompany us to a place where love is not a crime or considered weak, where sunsets never fail to be beautiful, and each new dawn is one that holds mystery and adventure; the footsteps may be travelling a broken road, but the stride is conscious, the pace steady, and the company unbroken.
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Whilst others may question our motives, we must always be aware of our own vibrancy, of our own values, for what others may see as intention, as reputation, is in actual fact character, it is honour and integrity moulded together by those who see with more than just their eyes, who feel with more than their gut instinct, it is those who have heard the call of Awaken, and who sleep only to dream.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Life was simpler once.
Not the cry of the technophobe lamenting the surge in technology, but the nostalgia of a truth that whispers that humanity has lost its ability to understand the complex arrangements of social cohesion, that we talk a big game, we commend ourselves on our defining character of peace, love and understanding and lifting up ones neighbour, but that we truly are devoid in the large percentage of being truly empathetic, that we have lost touch with our essence because we have embraced a more tactile relationship with the space in between true physical and emotional conduct.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We either lash out unthinkingly when we are confronted with pressure that upsets our being, our equilibrium, or we take a step back, we allow what has played out before us to be filtered, to be challenged internally before making what we believe to be action based on rational and intellectual judgement. It depends on the provocation, it changes from confrontation to confrontation, from conflict, row and quarrel, and what is often In Front Of Us is not the same as what we have passed on the way.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Those Sung Stories are more than just an aide memoire, they are more than the sadness highlighted by the verbal communication of the memento mori, the spirit of another time influencing the heartbeat as it soars, as it falls, sung stories are the framework of society, of how we have come together in terms of community, they tell of battles waged and won, they tell of storms survived, they inform us of how we can be proud and free in the face of aggression, in the face of despots and dictators.