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Claire Hastings, Those Who Roam. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A journey undertaken is never time wasted. We don’t do enough to acknowledge the bravery of those souls who seek a path away from all that they know and who will willingly venture into the undiscovered and strangely fascinating, we act as if it no big deal to leave everything behind and taste adventure, when in actual facts it can be the hardest thing in the world to do, to say goodbye and appreciate that you might never see their faces again.

Joe Martin, Daddy Gene. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The argument of nature v nurture goes far beyond the debate of many social causes, it is also a question in which sees art and artists work close in hand with what they absorb from others, as well as what was probably innate within them to begin with.

Rachel Croft, Hours Awake. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In your heart you know what you yearn, it is only your mind that seeks to divert you from a path you wish to take, how else do those hours awake at night drag you down, leave you feeling a different mood, bring strange thoughts, blurred, indecipherable visions and scenarios to mind, would it be better to listen to your heart, feel content as it beats softly against your chest, Hours Awake is a blissful state of conscious if you take note of what keeps you conscious.

Sean Taylor, This Is England. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In our lifetime the meaning and the word of what England meant has undergone a radical change, it is arguably a transformation that the world has seen fit to experience at the same time but for those raised on the spirit of belief in what the country endured and fought against in the oppression of tyranny from Nazism, the time it offered the rest of the world to lay plans to stop Fascism taking a grip on continental Europe forever, all now gone. A crumpled laughing stock and used as an example as state which values its millionaires more than the hungry, the poor, the disabled and every state in between.

Collette. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating

Cast: Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, Jake Graf, Rebecca Root, Robert Pugh, Julian Wadham, Sloan Thompson, Arabella Weir, Mate Haumann, Ray Panthaki, Al Weaver, Virag Barany, Dickie Beau, Kylie Watt, Janine Harouni, Joe Geary, Aiysha, Denise Gough, Shannon Tarbet.

The voice of the lost author, the ghost writer, the one who lends their talent to a less than able conjurer of words is often overlooked by history because they are held in a manner of bondage, the current term of such branded captivity is that it is good for exposure, that the remuneration received is surely enough; whatever way you look upon it, regardless of the gender of the person involved, it amounts to the same thing, a literary captivity, the suppression of acknowledgement, of gilded slavery.

Stan & Ollie. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John C. Reilly, Steve Coogan, Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda, Stephanie Hyam, Danny Huston, Richard Cant, Susy Kane, Rufus Jones, Sanjeev Kohli, Joseph Balderrama, Greg Canestrari, Danny Scheinmann.

History will only ever recall what the public wants to remember; a statement which seems to grow as we move further away from what was deemed traditional and into a world in which instant success and cheap exploitation of talent is lauded and cheered. It is in this unworthy scenario surely that we lose collectively the feeling and sense of wonder that encapsulates longevity, that everybody now has a chance of being seen for a minute, and then forgotten, dismissed, bring the next star in and let the nation love them for a brief explosive minute.

Within Temptation, Resist. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Whether in the majestic instrumental interpretation interludes, or throughout the phenomenal songs that carry the charm and darkness of lead singer Sharon den Adel, the seventh album from Dutch mega pioneers Within Temptation is one that arguably, and quite rightly, will be impossible to Resist.

Such statements are bound by the honour in which they are forever etched in time with, and thankfully the contest between open admiration and the sublime recording is one that matches up perfectly; to Resist is not just a right, it is the moral justification of all that you believe in and the privilege of expecting nothing less than being entirely correct in your assertion.

Ranagri, Playing For Luck. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Chances are that anything you may have tried your hand at to create, to build or love, has been greeted with the suspicion of those who come to view it, as being inspired by a gift, or just dumb good fortune to be in the right place at the right time, that you must have had a break or known people who would build you up; never realising that your talent is the result of long, arduous hours of exhausting practise, of labour and creative industry, not a case of Playing For Luck to prove that you have a voice in this world.

The Ego Ritual. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Life occasionally asks you to dig deep, to dispense with the shovel and spade, and to take up arms against the seemingly unmoveable Earth with a heavy-duty digger, to use the mechanics at your disposal and ask questions of what you may find, that the rubble you have disturbed leads to a core value, a gold stream you may not have expected; such a move does the self-image good, that The Ego Ritual is to be treated as sacred.

Luther (Series Five). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Idris Elba, Ruth Wilson, Patrick Malahide, Dermot Crowley, Wunmi Mosaku, Lex Daniel, Enzo Cilenti, Hermione Norris, Anthony Howell, Michael Smiley, Paul McGann, Lewis Young, Sonita Henry, Luke Westlake, Lex Daniel, Michael Obiora, Delroy Atkinson, Gary Hailes, Katherine Orchard, Jami Reid-Quarrell, Roberta Taylor.

The cruelty of life is such that those who should stay dead, sometimes never do, the mayhem of their life interferes with any possible peace that may come your way, their presence, long after you thought you had buried them, somehow returns to cause chaos, to bring you pain, a pain arguably always born out of misplaced loyalty, memory and love.