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Glenn Tilbrook, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

We are only human after all, and we can all be lured by the seemingly ripe berries of another bush but in the end we always return cap in hand and contrite to a love that remains undiminished, one that greets us with a broad grin, a smile that is enchanting and real, not one engrossed in delivering a plastic set of rules. Instead, one who will come out on stage and perform with natural ease that time doesn’t just fly in their company, it purrs like a finely tuned vehicle along crowded British streets and one that the driver is more than happy to show you every single point of interest along the way.

Glenn Tilbrook, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

Live On Mars: A Tribute To David Bowie, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You can attempt to capture the conscious of a king, you may have the ear of a president but for some the insistence that you cannot capture the soul of a Duke is the most sacred of idioms, the utmost of respects delivered, after all, the soul and image, the words and thoughts of a Duke are surely only ever realised when it comes from the mind of David Bowie.

Live On Mars: A Tribute To David Bowie, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(472 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Beth Hart-Live At The Royal Albert Hall. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

An entertainer, a performer, who can take you to a place in which you can understand the emotional turmoil in which they have been placed, the strength of absolute character in which they have shown and resolved to fight in, these are the epitome of artists to whom we find ourselves drawn to. Their voice is the conduit of the pain fought against and one that is not driven by self-interest, falsehood or narcissistic overtones, a pain that is real, a reflection that is beautiful, a series of musical confessions in which life is very much out in the open and live for all to see and hear.

Beth Hart-Live At The Royal Albert Hall. Album Review. full post

(466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

She Drew The Gun, Revolution Of Mind. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The only way that a revolt, an uprising, will ever happen in this country is when we admit that we were all kept that little bit too comfortable to worry about rebelling. What is needed more than the unquiet death hallows of a bitter riot, a mutiny in which so many believe they can make political gain out of, what is actually required is a Revolution of Mind, a well thought repel of all that has been taught and regurgitated across the last couple of centuries in British classrooms.

She Drew The Gun, Revolution Of Mind. Album Review. full post

(387 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Holygram, Modern Cults. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We look upon the modern world with either eager anticipation, or with the prospect of finding a black cloud hanging above our heads, we search in vain for the appearance of the dust bowl grime that beset the Peanuts character, Pig-Pen, the calling card to which our lives our reduced to nervous agitation about the state of the world and our own personal future in it.

Holygram, Modern Cults. Album Review. full post

(437 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Kerblam! Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, Claudia Jessie, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Lee Mack, Callum Dixon, Leo Flanagan, Matthew Gravelle.

It is the scream of vile objectification, of trying to make someone feel superiority over you, no matter what situation you find yourself in, especially when it is concerned with the arts, there will always be someone who snidely looks down upon your choices, and shouts viciously, “Why don’t you get a proper job?”

Doctor Who: Kerblam! Television Review. full post

(600 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)

Cut And Dried.

 

There are still tinges of red

dotted

here

and there

as my ruffled feathers mourn

the reflection I now bare

in the mirror,

cut to the bone, shorn

down, worn down Samson

strength, is it just age after all

as I approach the start

of a sixth decade here

on Earth, that self-inflicted

hair loss is congratulated

and applauded like shedding

of comfortable stones,

a woman’s hair is a crowning glory,

in the age of equalism

cannot I not lament

Cut And Dried. full post

(96 words, estimated 23 secs reading time)

The Time Machine, Theatre Review. The Studio, Atkinson Theatre, Southport.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Stephen Cunningham.

It is all about Time, how we attempt to understand it, how it tempts, teases, and controls us, Time punishes the wary and the inquisitive alike, it finds ways to deceive us, to humble and humiliate us, get too close and it leaves scars, stay away from investigating it, from immersing yourself within its non-corporeal hold and it will tear you layer from layer, it will chew down on your soul and ravage you. Time is a beast, a friend, a lawyer, an advocate and one that must unravel slowly, the tick and the tock always reminding us that if we see into our own futures, that of our own species, the result could drive us mad.

The Time Machine, Theatre Review. The Studio, Atkinson Theatre, Southport. full post

(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Folger, Johnny Depp, Zoe Kravitz, Callum Turner, Kevin Githrie, Ezra Miller, Claudia Kim, Cornell John, Carmen Ejogo, Wolf Hall, Derek Riddell, Rosie Corby-Tuech, Ingvar Eggert Sigursosson, Andrew Turner, Alfrun Rose, Janie Campbell Bower, Brontis Jodorowsky, Hugh Quarshie, Keith Chanter.

Some actions undertaken in life require no justification for their existence, and regardless of what you may think of the whole Harry Potter Universe and its ever-growing list of additions and supplements, what cannot be denied is the way in which J.K. Rowling has endeavoured to bring audiences together, either through the volumes of pages, or through the effect of the cinema screen.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald. Film Review. full post

(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

At Night, I Look The Opposition In The Eyes.

 

I can feel my breathe

diminish,

go thin,

even before it leaves

my body,

exhaling out of control

as it insanely tries to justify

the war I go through,

a soldier never quite alone

in this jungle wilderness,

a beast

camouflaged

in plain sight, standing out

as death rolls the dice

with a grin that bares rotten, stunted baby teeth

and a certain foul essence that passes

for conviction, assuredness,

a firmness of plan

as jungles collide

and bitter battles

At Night, I Look The Opposition In The Eyes. full post

(124 words, estimated 30 secs reading time)