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.
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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.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We have a duty to challenge not only others and their viewpoints, but to confront our own perceptions of what we can and cannot do. We should do this regularly, take stock and then if we find we didn’t succeed, then we must front up and dispute the findings and try again, no matter how many times it takes to contest the apparent failing or self-opinion, we must prevail, we must challenge ourselves to be a greater version of what we accept.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We all think we have Time, that when all is said and done we will somehow accomplish everything that we have set out to do, it is a reasonable view, a sense of hope that lifts our spirits when the dark comes calling at night, that we can reach for the pen and sign our names across the balance sheet, saying job complete.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The question remains, just how do you ever fully capture the live gig to the point where it matches in the mind the near mythical status that it has been placed in. An impossible task, almost perfected across time, but one that is rarely 100% conjoined with reality and your own perception of the event that took place.
It perhaps is easier to enjoy a release, no matter how old, when it out of the realms of most who weren’t even born when the album was released, or when the gig took place. To look back with nostalgia is one thing, to immerse yourself in the history of the moment is to seek out what made the band in question such a force of nature.
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Cast: Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone, Mark Gatiss, Emma Delves, Faye Daveney, Paul Swaine, Jennifer White, LillyRose Stevens, Denise Mark, Willem Dalby, Edward Aczel, James Smith, Carolyn Saint-Pe, John Locke, Nicholas Hoult.
Favouritism is not just about what makes you stand out in the public gaze, it is the result of who fancies you, who wants you intimately, regardless of whether they declare it openly or keep it buried deep in their subconscious, a concept that is frowned upon but none the less wrapped in truth. You get asked who The Favourite is, who you want to see come out on top, and for the most part that sentiment is born out of lust, not out of cold logic.
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Cast: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, Joel Dawson, Julie Walters, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Jeremy Swift, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Dick Van Dyke, Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Jim Norton, Steve Nicholson, Noma Dumezwemi, Tarik Frimong, Sudha Bhuchar, Karen Dotrice, Christian Dixon.
A feel-good musical that the whole family can enjoy is a scarcity, perhaps not completely rare, but certainly a genre lacking in want in amongst the incessant variety that is pitched, some banal, more often than not, unappealing, the message that comes across being one steeped in a false upbeat premise in which is like being fed on a sugar rich diet, the instant hit soon losing its lustre as you realise all you have digested is a propaganda lifestyle that unfortunately means nothing.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Somewhere in the film set deserts the ghosts of characters, once clutching a fistful of dollars and harbouring resentment and animosity, believe they have been entranced by the score of Ennio Morricone, a sound filtering across the desert scenes lifts their spirits, the man with no name smiles charismatically and understands that the call heard is not that of the flourish of the Matador as they take to the Spanish ring, but that of the most splendid debut album by Liverpool’s Red Rum Club, one of magic conceived, one of overwhelming cool.
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Live is where the magic happens, where the sound is rude and beautifully insolent, almost anarchic, not wanting to settle for the polished obedience; like a rebellious teenager showing well-earned righteous contempt to an authority that has lost its credibility and meaning, being rude and raw in a live situation is to be admired and applauded.
It is an approach that sees Hamburg-based Ska-Punk band Rantanplan lift the mood of rebellion with vigour, of organised construction and purpose in detailing their new album as one of creative disorder and style.
Liverpool Sound and vision Rating 9/10
“…and what a time it was, it was…” there will never be another time like it, nor will there be another American Folk/Rock duo like Simon and Garfunkel, the combination of both the artistes and the time they captured the raw sensibility, the hope and eventual damage caused by a system that was determined to not let the world enjoy the freedom it had sought and fought so hard to win.