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Keeping Faith: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Eve Myles, Mark Lewis Jones, Bradley Freegard, Aneirin Hughes, Hannah Daniel, Lacey Jones, Demi Letherby, Eiry Thomas, Alex Harries, Catherine Ayers, Suzanne Packer, Rhian Morgan¸ Rhashan Stone, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Anastasia Hille, Brochan Evans, Martha Bright, Boryana Manoilova, Richard Lynch, Owen Arwyn.

Keeping Faith is a hard ask of modern audiences, the temptation to wander away from the serial that once had you gripped is an understandable response to the way we live today, the instant and continuous gratification, the need for visual stimulation is so overwhelming that we do not understand why such a television programme cannot keep up with the initial demand, why it cannot behave like a soap opera.

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(447 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Boo Hewerdine, Before. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The setting and the mood are fundamental for art to thrive, the sterile and the beige is of little importance, but the drama of the unexpected, the reflection of the human experience, that is what brings any art to life. The after image of what went Before is crucial, the agility of the artist to focus on the minimal rather than the explosive, critical; and through such passionate intricacy the listener is introduced to the seismic silence that sweeps them off their feet.

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

Dead Shed Jokers, All The Seasons. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We surely must look to the women and men to whom light shines on for All The Seasons, for in them we witness our own possible reflections, and to misquote Robert Bolt’s A Man For All Seasons, “Their taste in the pursuit of truth is excellent, it exactly coincides with my own!”

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(395 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Amy Papiransky, Read Me Write. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In the emotional turmoil that comes with attempting to express one’s beliefs, hopes and thoughts, we often accuse of others of not making sense, we deride them for their stuttering shadows of speech, as if that is the point of existence, to play a game of battering egos in which assumption of somebody’s worth is decided by how well you decide they have got their opinion across.

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

Kris Barras Band, Light It Up. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The bonfire that surrounds us is one that few are willing to see burn to the ground, the smoke will cling to our skin for a while but it will also find a way to point the way clear, to act as a beacon that our personal thoughts are sacred. Our belief is tantamount to the revolution that we wish to see witness, whether it is one of the mind, or of the soul, such is the value to be gained by imploring others to Light It Up, and then, like the aftermath of a volcanic eruption, in time finding that new growth can bring forth rapid change.

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

Backline, Salem Town. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To feel bewitched by sound is such an enormous pleasure that it can feel at times completely overwhelming, the sense of having been placed under a soothing spell of aural confusion and symphony is to give yourself to the elementals and the practitioners of numerous spiritual allusions; it is under this influence that the trip to Salem Town is one that comes out of the blue and strips you of all tempting pride and places you instead in a world where angels speak to you of enchanting stories and tales.

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(366 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Ina Forsman, Katrina Pejak, Ally Venable: Blues Caravan 2019. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

They Say I’m Different, perhaps not so much different, as distinctive, a symbol of female drive and Blues passion that is captivating, and which has thankfully been part of a growing with speed since the turn of the century; a far cry from the times in which to be part of the Blues arguably meant for a woman somehow being seen as the voice, and not as the face and the heart of the song.

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(385 words, 1 image, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Chris Wragg And Greg Copeland, Deep In The Blood. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Visio Rating 8.5/10

You cannot ignore what is Deep In The Blood, the signs of your own humanity, the ecstasy of life, and even when others blood may run cold as the story continues, it is, in the end, their loss, their problem, for understanding what drives you, is in itself the point of having heart, courage and pleasure continuously running through your veins.

The combination that comes out of nowhere is one that injects fortune into the mind of the seeker, the one who unceasingly pursues the next form in which to wrestle with, who knows there is something else that survives in the blood, that it is honey that makes the world a sweeter proposition that might otherwise be the case.

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

Hannah Wicklund & The Steppin’ Stones. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Intensity is a virtue that is often treated as if it is an instrument of power, of exploitation, rather than the thought of demonstrated appreciation and the stepping-stone to fulfilment, it all depends on the circumstance, the application, the means of delivery to which few manage to convey with sincerity of heart and without seeming to go overboard and headlong in to the realm of unrequited devilish glee.

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(396 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Burton Guibord, Are We Free? Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Are We Free? Not at all, we may give the appearance and nodding glance to the notion of liberty, but deep down we know we are tied to the spectre of authority, as a species, as an individual. It is only in the hands of the dreamers, the poets, the writers and the artists that arguably the land of independent thought can exist, even then it is secured and gagged by others who dismiss the point as being one only driven by the self, that the ideal of Utopia is one that cannot exist unless humanity dies.

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(397 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)