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Ally Venable: Money & Power. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There is no doubt that Blues as an artform needed to reinvent itself in the 21st Century as it found itself on the point of collapse, of suffering self-destruction to its lack of ability to coax and lure new fans to its ailing body. There is assurance that Blues was dying, and even a resurrection of the genre would only give it a limited time scale of survival as decent and legends remained, but nobody was willing to take their place in the heated arena.

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(432 words, 1 image, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

An Inspector Calls On Moscow. Radio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Rory Kinnear, Karen Ascoe, Nigel Anthony, Paul Hilton, Richard Attlee, Trevor Littledale, Samantha Hughes, Inna Metlina, Olegs Ohotins.

There can be little doubt that J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls is one of the most enduring, important, and defining plays of the 20th Century. Conceived and written at a time when the fire that consumed the world and destroyed what little pretence that we projected to having a society being for the benefit of all, and was shakily losing ground to the horrors unearthed on foreign fields; and yet one that might not have seen the light of day in post war Britain because of Winston Churchill’s umbrage and offence to the writer’s socialist beliefs.


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

Gypsy Pistoleros: Church Of The Pistoleros. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If you’re part of the in-crowd then you’ve wasted the opportunity life affords you to be a cynical individual, to feel the desire of the recklessly abandoned and the fiercely misunderstood; for nothing feels quite so good as understanding that refusing to play the games of those who only want to be there for the chance to show their face in the limelight is arguably the only church you are require to worship in.

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(400 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

The Film. Radio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Henry Goodman, Jeremy Swift, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Fenella Woolgar, Hamilton Berstock.

It was not until Channel 4 had the sense of duty that had been denied Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Crossman, and a whole platoon of film makers that made their way to various concentration camps as liberation from the Nazi terror that had engulfed Europe, then perhaps only a select few would have ever been privy to the immense documentary collaboration that became known at the time as German Concentration Camps Factual Survey , but which perhaps had even greater impact when released in the chilling 2015 release as Night Will Fall.

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(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Robin Trower: Come And Find Me. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The great survivor of the Psychedelic Rock era, one of the true godfathers of guitar’s sweet embrace as a means of expression and conveyer of emotions, Robin Trower’s continual presence at the heart of the music is to be admired and celebrated, and the fact that he prodigiously focuses his attention on giving his audience his all is nothing short of fantastic, and one in which his new album, Come And Find Me, adds yet again a figure of respectable insight to the application of the art he is credited rightly as being one of the men responsibility for its accessibility.

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(424 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

We The Young Strong. Radio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10


Cast: Poppy Gilbert, Calvin Demba, Finlay Paul, Ruby Bentall, Abbigail Weinstock, Kiki May, Jenny Funnell, Paul Hinton, Abi McLoughlin, Tom Alexander.

The warning from history is not so much to be wary of certain political ideologies, but instead to shun those who wield the power and authority with charisma to pull in and manipulate the youth whose minds are easily swayed in the face of deprivation and neglect.


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(523 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ncuti Gatwa, Varada Sethu, Anita Dobson, Jonny Green, Max Parker, Thalia Dudek, Stefan Haines, Belinda Owusu, Tom Storey, Stephen Love, Robert Strange, Nicholas Briggs, Evelyn Miller, Charles Sandford, Lucas Edwards, Caleb Hughes, Nadine Higgin, William Ellis.

In a timely reflection on the use of A.I. in the 21st Century, the ethics of appropriation of personal data and biometrics by governments, and the misuse, indeed theft of the individual artists work to train the aspects of artificial intelligence, years of authorship and writing stolen in what can be seen as a monumental reckless abandonment of ethics; so the opening episode of the new series of Doctor Who, The Robot Revolution casts its eye on an old favourite theme, the forgoing of the human existence and spirit in favour of the possibly oppressive, the creeping evil of binary A.I.

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(449 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Yellowjackets: Series Three. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Christina Rikki, Sophie Nélisse, Tawny Cypress, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samatha Hanratty, Warren Kole, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Kevin Alves, Alexa Barajas, Steven Krueger, Sarah Desjardins, Lauren Ambrose, Hilary Swank, Jenna Burgess, Nia Sondaya, Ella Purnell, Elijah Wood, Simone Kessell, Rukiya Bernard, Aiden Stoxx, Keeya King, Nicole Maines, Anisa Harris, Silvana Estifanos, Vanessa Prasad, Jeff Holman, Joel McHale.

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(540 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Coming 2 America. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Jermaine Fowler, Shari Headley, John Amos, Nomzamo Mbatha, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, Clint Smith, KiKi Layne, Wesley Snipes, Teyna Taylor, Bella Murphy, Akiley Love, Paul Bates, Louie Anderson, James Earl Jones, Rotimi, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Colin Jost, Kevin T. DeWitt, Luenell, Rodney Perry, Michael Blackson, Rick Ross, Garcelle Beauvais, Vanessa Colon, Janette Colon, Morgan Freeman, Gladys Knight.

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(497 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Bell Barrow: CoreCore Pulp. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The flesh of any art should always be ripe, ready to consume, appealing to the eye and one that draws you in to see below the surface, wanting to devour the core, to drain the pulp and squeeze the very life out of it so that you can feel the soul being refreshed; much like the attraction of a succulent fruit on offer in a grocers shop, we are pulled in by the vision, no matter what the underneath may contain.

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(379 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)