Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
A sentence does not need to be lengthy to make impact, it does not require a grand gesture to be memorable, it just needs to be spoken with clarity, and with the softness of a person who understands that the strength of the words is underlined with the force of a heart refusing to be broken, who sees joy as sacrosanct, almost holy.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There is seeing an certain opportunity, and then there is the effect that a Chance Worth Taking has on the mind, one seems calculated, often designed, gouged with determination out of stone and placed in the pantheon of marbled thought that seems to be congratulated out of simplicity by an awaiting audience, nodding sagely as if completely enthralled and patiently abiding; and yet there seems to be a kind of earthly magic, a spell cast with love and heart rather than conspicuous premeditation…and it is to this that the effect on those on the receiving end of this chance should focus their adoration upon, for it more human, more complex, and a darn sight more beautiful.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Joe Jackson is one of those incredible musicians and lyric writers that make the sound of the autobiographical so human, so very obviously in love with what it means to bare the soul through the dedication to the observation of each word and how it works with emotion, memory, and the pleasure of the listener’s attention…it is the poet within the art, the eyewitness to history’s personal unfolding, and all within the boundaries of Hope And Fury, beyond the limitations set by other’s unmeasured mind.
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Cast: Holiday Grainger, Lia Williams, Ron Perlman, Ben Miles, Killian Scott, Nigel Lindsey, Paapa Essiedu, Indira Varma, Hugh Quarshie, Andrew Buchan, Isabella Brownson, Linus Rache, Jonathan Aris, Daisy Waterstones, Tessa Wong, Andy Nyman, Amanda Drew, Joe Dempsie, Adrian Rawlins, Natalie Dew.
The future envisioned by George Orwell has been exceeded in its desire to subjugate the masses, what is in its place in the third decade of the 21st Century is something even more hideous, a price paid with the vanity of ego and the fear installed at every drop every headline, and with all the power of surveillance and technology at its disposal…this is the future adapted to control a population afraid of its own possibility to fight back.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
When the artist insists that creating a moment is its own reward, you can either believe them and revel in their vision, or you can scoff silently, or with an unbecoming arrogance, and whisper that artists are only are ever in it for the fame, the fortune, and the favour. It is not quite the argument of flat Earth or the footsteps on the moon that seems to divide humanity, but it is one that vexes the purist and the emotionally satisfied find perplexing to deal with, for how can art be anything other than commercially free and intellectually stimulating.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The sense of wonder is in danger of being Lost To This World because we have become attuned to the simplicity of cynicism, the lure of scorn, and the creativity of suspicion that we have become representative of in our reckless pursuit of abandoning the very essence of human creativity, of no longer seeing the poetic heart as beautiful, and treating absence of the imagination as a sacrifice for false knowledge.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
A long and distinguished career, a time of great musical fortune, and considered to be across the board one of the queens of rock, that is the blessed realisation that the listener finds when looking back at the professional life of America’s Suzi Quatro; but it is in the aftermath of life’s greatest highs that we find the Freedom in just being ourselves, or rightly being understood that the path we were on was always the one that lit up the room, that created liberty for others to follow.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Rule books be damned. Take the blueprint of the ages and do the most honest thing we can in a period of time that is not just in flux, but actively breaking at the seams of credible moderation and instead is insisting we see the rules as unbendable orders that we play the game to age old dictates at the detriment of our own growth…we throw that rule book on the fire and look to a time of more honest understanding, those with mysteries and fierce Dark Faerie Tales holding our hearts.
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When hope becomes grounded, when it feels more than the stirring of potential and optimism, that is when we proudly place our name to the endeavour we have been pursuing, when we state our intentions as more than honourable, but a promise in action…that is the point at times of the self-titled release; a short step from the placing of the subjective singular approach, a more enlightening and channelling of the exhibition of artistic renaissance to come.
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Why do we place so much faith in the apparently soulless, why do we show such devotion to the constancy of the hum of the electric heartbeat, pray to the lifeless length of time unresponsive friendship that a television or radio can provide…it is almost as if we understand our connections to the Inanimate Objects of the 21st Century are not only deep rooted, but a stage of slow evolution that is being guided by a pulse out of reach to the naked eye but felt intensely.