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Lotte Kestner, Lost Songs. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Lost Songs, we all have had the waking dream of a tune in our head and the words to match, but like an old fashioned radio that found its signal wandering during the night, we forget what poked its way through the clouds of brain fog and static eye movements, and so those would be classic hits, the songs that might have punctured the reserve and the shell of the cruel and unusual and forcing them to do right by humanity, are gone, just soundwaves never to be recaptured.

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(393 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Spinn, Outside Of The Blue. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Do no harm, not just an oath for those that seek patients in distress, nor as a mantra into which we look upon the lives as others as sacred, but to our own souls, to our belief, for if we are cruel, if we are disposed to place anger against our own essence and being, then we are preparing ourselves to cause havoc on the one we should be caring for most; ourselves.

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

The Responder. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Martin Freeman, MyAnna Buring, Adelayo Adedayo, Romi Hyland-Rylands, Mark Womack, Josh Finan, Emily Fairn, Philip Shaun McGuinness, Warren Brown, Ian Hart, Faye McKeever, Philip Barantini, Elizabeth Berrington, Christine Tremarco, David Loy, Rob Pomfret, Jude Cooper-Kelly, Kerrie Hayes, Dave Hart, Lois Cringle, James Nelson-Joyce, David Bradley, Karl Collins, Philip Whitchurch, Amaka Okafor, Marji Campi, Rita Tushingham, Maud Druine, Michael Starke, Jake Abraham, Paul Campion, Christian Waite, Victor McGuire, Kieran Urquhart, Sylvie Gatrill, Matthew Cottle, Dave Hill, Roy Brandon, Harry Burke, Pat Winker.

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(764 words, estimated 3:03 mins reading time)

Annie Keating, Twenty 22. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We are presented with two states of existence when we are urged to look at the new year and its possibilities, one of careful and observant hope, and another which can be seen as toxic happiness, the frame of mind which insists all around them pledge to show a face which belies their naked spirit, and arguably causes those others to feel something they would rather not confront.

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(419 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

The Tourist. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald, Shalom Bruce-Franklin, Damon Herriman, Alex Dimitriades, Olafur Darri Ólafsson, Kamil Ellis, Damien Strouthos, Greg Larson, Victoria Haralabidou, Geneviève Lemon, Alex Andreas, Jeanette Cronin, David Collins, Rhonda Doyle, Simon Gligora, Ansuya Nathan, Stephen Hunter, Renee Lim, Lasarus Ratuere, Mark Fantasia, Kyle Robertson, Willian Rodrigues, Jasper Bagg, Brett Blake, Maria Mercedes, Natasha Wanganeen.

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(559 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Megadeth, A Night In Buenos Aires. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You know exactly what you are going to be exposed to before the needle comes down gracefully upon the spinning vinyl, and yet the bolt of music you find your ears impaled upon is both satisfyingly and dynamically explosive. It is enough to register shock waves of pleasure and joy from across the oceans, it is seismic even after more than a decade and a half after it first appeared in cd form. It is the overwhelming arsenal poised at your heart, the warheads of metal ready to take off and bombarded the listener with strike after strike, the unrepentant wave of hits as A Night In Buenos Aires becomes the theatre of music that is so richly needed in a period of human inactivity.

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

Beth Hart, A Tribute To Led Zeppelin. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To release a cover of a well-known hit song or personal favourite is considered a modern etiquette, the chance to acknowledge what has guided you, what has inspired you, what creativity has pushed you to the point where your own music is forever joined at the hip and acknowledged as a natural partner, is good manners and appreciated by artist and fan alike.

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(547 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

Around The World In 80 Days. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: David Tennant, Ibrahim Koma, Leonie Benesch, Jason Watkins, Peter Sullivan, Leon Clingman, Anthony Flanagan, David Sherwood, Reza Diako, Jeff Rawle, Richard Wilson, Nicholas Ellenbogen, Lindsay Duncan, Victoria Smurfit, Dolly Wells, Gary Beadle, Charlie Hamblett, Patrick Kennedy, Faical Elkihel.

H G Wells and Jules Verne, two men for whom readers can bestow the title of the Godfather of Science Fiction, perhaps can arguably claim from the beyond that their work has not had the best of treatments when it comes to large screen or television adaptations. It is almost as if the text is too outlandish, too peculiar to capture the essence of their finest works, leaving the fan to console themselves with the imagination and the novels at their disposal.

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(492 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Jethro Tull, The Zealot Gene. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To move forward is to evolve, and yet in the hands of a master, time can become meaningless; 50 years producing music that quite often defied convention, that ridiculed the notion of stereotyping, and refused to be tied to one person, despite critics and fans alike quite often only associating the magic of flute with the name itself, that is the meaninglessness of Time, for Jethro Tull, Time is a scope of illusion and imagery.

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

Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams, Naomi Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, Peggy Lu, Sian Webber, Jack Bandeira, Olumide Olorunfemi, Scroobius Pip, Reece Shearsmith.

Despite the seriousness of the storyline, the undertones of institutional abuse and the outright red flags of cruelty, neglect and violence, Andy Serkis’ Venom: Let There Be Carnage is a romp, a graphic book large screen hybrid, a mutation of fine comedy underpinned by the gravity of murderous revenge.

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(575 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)