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Kate MacLeod, Uranium Maiden. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Two sides of the same coin, both coming up heads and with wide brimmed smiles of comfort and insight radiating from in between the edges of American Folk; this is the place where a child of the atomic age rubs shoulders with the influence and study of far and wide culture, and the result is one of harmonious interaction and pleasing delivery, a significant spectrum of colour in a world that can at times find the coin landing edgeways on and confusing all who witness it.

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(442 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Lordi, Humanimals. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The class just keeps flowing and surging through the releases under the extensive and noble effort that surrounds Finnish rockers Lordi and their seven series boxset Lordiversity; and three albums in the outstanding Humanimals takes its bow at the front of the pack and blows any thought of stagnation in the new year completely and utterly away.

Such is the strength of the songs that have burst forth that it can be seen as prophetic, almost visionary that it has taken such a band to do what others have failed to do in the past, continually deliver high drama, interest, and persuasion where others have faltered in their hunt for consistency over several albums in a short space of time.

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(476 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Bobby Allison And Gerry Spehar, Delta Man. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The word retrospective should always bring joy to the ears of the music lover. By its very existence it sounds more alluring, grander, more encompassing than the idea of a ‘greatest hits’ or the notion of a ‘best of’, for in its design it is surely meant to inform the listener of the totality of the music on offer rather than being picked as a crowd pleaser, an album which is designed to be in the charts rather than educating the intrigued with an entire catalogue of work.

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(474 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Cruzados, She’s Automatic. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

How do we return to a starting point without it seeming as though we have come back to pay a debt or resume an acquaintance, the sure-fire way is to perhaps agree that unfinished business is a part of life, that it is not so much of a return, as an exercise in continuation, the added extra bonus chapter to a much loved and admired novel that no one was expecting!

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

Doctor Who: Eve Of The Daleks. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop, Aisling Bea, Adjani Salmon, Pauline McLynn, Nicholas Briggs, Jonny Dixon, Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg, Jon Davey.

A plan conceived when the clock is against you is one that will arguably make the old heart beat that little bit faster, and therefore be more memorable, than anything that is carefully and meticulously drawn up over the space of weeks, maybe months, and even years.

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(598 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)

Red Blood Shoes, Ghosts On Tape. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In A Town Called Nothing the Ghosts On Tape are worth their weight in gold, for in exposing the mystery that walks two worlds, the corporeal and the as yet unknown, we could arguably find harmony, we would certainly encounter spirit, and despite others believing there is some kind of morbid interest, a death hag stance in which the sound of the beyond interests us more than the joy of the living, it is that harmony of both worlds that inspires us to create art that encompasses both states of humanity.

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(437 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Ashley Zukerman, Eddie Izzard, Valorie Curry, Beau Knapp, Sumalee Montano, Rick Gonzalez, Sammi Rotibi, Greg Bryk, Raoul Bhaneia, Laura de Cartret, Keenan Jolliff, Tyrone Benskin, Mark Gibbon, Steve Cumyn, Dalal Badr, Batz Recinos, Gage Graham-Arbutnot, Ben Carlson, Tamara Duarte, Emily Piggford, Michael Blake, Gia Sandhu.

Any form of art requires faith, from the person painstakingly producing the scene to which others are meant to be inspired, to the audience, singular or large scale, who are the hopeful beneficiaries of the human endeavour, who hope to be blessed by its appearance, by its magnificence.



Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. Television Review. full post

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

A Discovery Of Witches (Series One). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Edward Bluemel, Owen Teale, Louise Brealey, Malin Buska, Aiysha Hart, Alex Kingston, Lindsay Duncan, Valarie Pettiford, Trevor Eve, Greg McHugh, Tanya Moodie, Damiel Ezra, Elarica Johnson, Trystan Gravelle, Adetomiwa Edun, Sophia Myles, David Newman, Sorcha Cusack, Chloe Dumas, Gregg Chillin.

“Those who don’t believe in magic, are doomed never to find it”.

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(620 words, estimated 2:29 mins reading time)

Kate Green, A Dark Carnival. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A Dark Carnival resides within us all, we might not allow the fair rides and galleries to be accessed by just anyone with the five shillings required to gain entry, but once inside they will come to appreciate what exactly drives the carriages onwards, it may not be their cup of tea, they might consider it more of a lengthy ghost train that has far too much emphasis on fate rather than celebration, but it is honest, it is a different kind of beauty in which to focus upon and one that is in reality a brighter ride to enjoy than one shrouded in make believe.

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

Every Morning

Sometimes I open the blinds

to witness the dark at four o’clock

in all its stillness.

But more often than not I keep

them closed, till the Sun insists

its alive and well, screaming

into the darkness that becomes

a whisper of joyful light by the time

it reaches my ears…

and yet every morning,

long before the birds

see the march of time and early worms

I question whether 

I should continue,

every morning I ask if you

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(100 words, estimated 24 secs reading time)