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Rumours Of Fleetwood Mac, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. (2019).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Rumours of Fleetwood Mac’s Emily Gervers at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. April 2019. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Time has not yet been called on the story of Fleetwood Mac, there is always one more chapter being written, one more footnote being slotted in, one extra paragraph to be prepared, for a group that is rightly hailed as one of the all-time greats of Rock, they also know how to keep the fans guessing on what drama will come to light next; it is in that which keeps the whole performance as electrifying and as dynamic as watching a meteor shower blaze across the night sky.

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(563 words, 1 image, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

VRi, Tŷ Ein Tadau. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If we are fortunate, privileged beyond almost anything the world can throw at us or endow with is mystery and reveal, then to stand as adults and still be able to see love in the eyes of the one we call Dad is to know somewhere we have inherited that man’s reason, trust and hope. To many abandon this, striking out on their own, never realising that by walking away, so too does the soul of the one who helped raise us to be of equal footing in Our Father’s House.  

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

Big Daddy Wilson, Deep In My Soul. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You could be forgiven for thinking that the world turns on the presence of time and the grasping hands of those for whom money is all consuming; and whilst as we steam roller into possible extinction, while we seem to ignore lessons learned and put our fingers in our ears to drown out the sound of truth and reality, what we should finally realise is that the planet, each one us, runs on love, basic but beautiful, love.

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(468 words, 1 image, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Stray Cats, 40. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A positive argument will always be made that the initial energy that makes up a band, the creative bonding which first brought any group to prominence, can be recaptured given the right set of circumstances and stimuli, the never forgotten beating heart which strode any stage with confidence and perhaps wonderful seamless pride, it all is contained within a tightly corked bottle waiting to release its vintage, even after a few decades since it was last sampled.

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(377 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

RJ Chesney, Amateur Revolution. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

No uprising can hope to survive unless it is meticulously planned out, any possible kinks in the plan smoothed down and the feeling that what you are hoping to achieve is not one of fundamental revolt or insidious riot, instead what the aim should be is one of considered revolution, a change of mind, heart and soul. It doesn’t have to be dealt with pain of absolute, neither should it be embraced as mutinous tragedy or by the hands of devilish authority wanting more of the same but within a different body running the show; the Amateur Revolution is always in the end one that is more sincere and thoughtful to those caught in its seismic wake.

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

Enterfire, Slave Of Time. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is a peculiarity affixed to humanity that unless we are seen to be controlled by the clock then we cannot be seen as to be productive, there is seemingly no room in the concerns of those who set the agenda that we can be off the clock, dedicated to our own well-being, our spiritual growth. There is always in the back of our minds the pressure of utilising the moment between the tick and the tock, a chilling spectre that eats at our soul and which insists that we make lists, to be continually busy, for in the end it seems we are nothing but a Slave of Time, and the clock continuously marks down the minutes in which we serve this insatiable master.

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(420 words, 1 image, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Bruce Hornsby, Absolute Zero. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The minimum value is not an accusation or deriding comment one can place at the door of Bruce Hornsby, quite the opposite in face, his energy and perspective across the decades has endeared him to more than one genre of fans, the melodic Rock, film score, musical and the cool sensation of sincere Jazz effect, all have rippled under the weight of dynamic prose and observance of life through the speciality of piano and keys, of lofty ideals and the slow dance with the eagerly devoured, Absolute Zero is a place that is the complete opposite to which the music provided in Bruce Hornsby’s latest solo album regales itself upon the hearts of the listener.

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(410 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Lewis Trondheim And Stéphane Oiry, Maggy Garrisson. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If a picture can paint a thousand words, then London is righty considered a canvas that keeps inspiring, an image of forever change and the backdrop to an ever evolving mixture of oils and a representation of life that is both a textured reflection and despairing copy of its once genius self and the back drop to a million hopeless dreams.

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

Dragged Across Concrete, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles, Michael Jai White, Thomas Kretschmann, Jennifer Carpenter, Laurie Holden, Don Johnson, Udo Kier, Fred Malamed, Justine Warrington.

Robbery against the large faceless institutions, unlike murder, is one when presented in either fact or fiction produces a dichotomy of feelings for the average person, on one hand is rejoiced as a blow against the system which will happily see all bend under the strain of financial constraint whilst those that impose economic sanctions continue to thrive and prosper, on the other hand, the moral indignation takes hold and inside asks what makes such actions necessary, why should a thief get away with their actions when all the rest of society behaves and hopes for better days.

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(503 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Red Joan, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes, Laurence Spellman, Tereza Srbova, Ben Miles, Robin Soans, Kevin Fuller, Stephen Boxer,

The declaration and labelling of being a traitor is one that is arguably fraught with the agony that comes with not being able to present your side of the story to the nation without it being lost in the clamour of calls for your neck, to die at the hands of a public spurred on by mass media and the urging of government to dole out maximum punishment.

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(530 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)