Author Archives: admin

Thunder, Please Remain Seated. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Fluidity is all the rage, fashionable even, it is perhaps an argument which is necessary in this day and age as we search for a wider definition of what it means to be human, what it means to be an individual. To be flexible in your thinking does not mean you are betraying your beliefs, just open-minded to the possibility that there is more than just your philosophy which shapes the world, and which has at one time guided the past.

Joe Jackson, Fool. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A perceived Fool can be the wisest person to talk, nobody ever pays too much attention to them until that nugget of reason which catches the ear is proclaimed as profound, but then dismissed as a one in a life time inspiration, never realising that the ready wit is always there, ready to be spoken, it is just that the fool prefers to only speak when he knows when everybody else is being duped by higher powers and they have become blind to the charms of conmen.

The Bench: (Friendship Forever), Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * *

Cast: Barbara Cunningham, Neil Summerville.

How far will you go for friendship? If you are fortunate enough to have that one person in your life to whom you would go to the end of the Earth for just to make them smile, then yours is perhaps the most blessed of lives, a truth of existence is that we cannot go through our time here on Earth without searching for that one person to make us happy, neither are we immune to wanting to find another in which we might be able to bring happiness too. It is a Friendship Forever in which our lives are balanced upon.

The Bench: (Heaven Sent), Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Clifford Hume, Emma Ley, Karl Best.

There is a theatre of mystery that dogs human existence, we seem to fail to understand the connection we have to each and every person on the planet, we are so concerned with our own sense of self that we neglect the silence of a child and put it down to wilful disobedience, we forget those who raise us until the moment they are gone from our lives and we are ignorant to those who don’t scream and shout when the world has taken a bad turn, we believe that just because they aren’t complaining that they can take the misery and misfortune levelled at their soul.

The Bench: (Love), Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Claire Coull, Neil Summerville, Emma Ley.

Love is what remains when the world no longer makes sense, it is the spark in the fire of inspiration, it is the beauty in the chaos and anarchy that makes us give everything we can to those whose lives we cherish. Love is that moment when your breath is taken away by the person you see in pain, knowing you will do anything to stop it from continuing.

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? Radio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: James Purefoy, Jessica Raine, Nicky Henson, Anton Lesser, Heather Craney, Stuart McLoughlin, Clive Howard, Danny Sapani, Jaimi Barbakoff, Wilf Scolding.

It is often a frustration that comes in waves, that no matter how incredible the film Blade Runner is, how mesmerising the feel of the story is, it somehow, like all adaptations of Philip K. Dick’s glorious output, is left feeling altered, bereft of the soul of the man to whom so much is owed.

Lauren Ray, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In the end all that we have to do must be worth it, our best is what defines us, our search to extend the reach of our soul must be fruitful, and as a consequence it has to commit to seeing life as more than a performance, it has to be passion personified, the light must resonate as deeply from within as it shows on stage.

A person of substance is all that we are required to be, but sometimes when the light falls and the music starts, we are dominated by the blackness that envelops us, we forget to shine, we misplace the element that makes us unique.

Mary, Queen Of Scots. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, David Tennant, Guy Pearce, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, Gemma Chan, Martin Compston, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Brendan Coyle, Ian Hart, Adrian Lester, James McArdle, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Eileen O’Higgins, Izuka Hoyle, Liah O’Prev, Alex Beckett, Simon Russell Beale, Richard Cant, Guy Rhys, Thom Petty, Aneurin Pascoe, Adrian Derrick-Palmer, Kal Sabir, Adam Bond, Like Kidd, Claire Brown, Alan Turkington, Jordan Turk, Adam Stevenson, Scot Greenan, Ed Jones, Alex Beckett, Ian Hallard, Andrew Rothney, Grace Molony, Georgia Burnell, Luke Hobson, Ben Wiggons, Eldredd, Wolf, Eric Macnaughton, Nathen East, Sean Buchanan.

Glass. Film Review.

 Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, James McAvoy, Sarah Poulson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Spencer Treat Clark, Luke Kirby, Marissa Brown, Charlayne Woodard, Adam David Thompson, M Night Shyamalan.

The art of the film maker comes with the unexpected sense of the sleight of hand, the appearance out of nowhere which justifies the movie as one that was always ready to be defined by what follows it, a story which the audience has no idea is part of a greater tale, one in which the director and writer might not have realised they themselves had no idea they were be guided by outside forces to make.

Cats And Crows, Winter. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

From the revelation of admitting to Honest Crimes, to extoling the virtues of the depths of Winter, it seems Cats and Crows will always find a way to hold both intriguing sentiment and passionate feelings out from the musical cradle to the nesting place in which we raise our lives high above the blizzards and storms that beset us along the way.