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The Blinders, Columbia. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The alternative side of the argument is one that is rarely acceptable to those who only see, and hear, their own prejudiced view. In a world that is overloaded with information, where for one simple question typed into the world wide web, a myriad of conflicting responses litter your inbox as if dumped there by a whirlwind, a tornado of useless information that you have to sift through just to find that nugget of information which means you can pull The Blinders off and find the alternative wealth of truth in a world that claims it is the real deal, the only reality.

The Blinders, Columbia. Album Review. full post

(451 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Slash: Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators, Living The Dream. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Few of us truly attain the place in which we can say we are Living The Dream, through bad decisions, the lack of aptitude, or even just plain bad fortune, the dream becomes a series of lucid, waking realisations that some steps were missed in the pursuit of the vision we once had, that the fantasy of our existence has become the revelation of a simpler, perhaps more tranquil, appearance, for after all, Living The Dream is quite often accompanied by stalking nightmare of excess and over-indulgence.

Slash: Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators, Living The Dream. Album Review. full post

(455 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Bodyguard. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Richard Madden, Keeley Hawes, Gina McKee, Sophie Rundle, Paul Ready, Vincent Franklin, Stuart Bowman, Nina Toussaint-White, Stephanie Hyam, Tom Brooke, Matt Stokoe, Pippa Haywood, Nicholas Gleaves, Shubham Saraf, Claire-Louise Cordwell, Michael Schaeffer, Richard Riddell, David Westhead, Anji Mohindra.

Bodyguard. Television Review. full post

(590 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Rachael Ball, Wolf. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Our childhood memories are made of the real and the imagined and quite often the lines of both worlds are blurred, become merged with each other, what we believe we may have experienced, what we may have seen, is something we may be told later by well-meaning relatives, that didn’t happen, or imagination out-ran our senses. That the snarling Wolf we followed one day through a thick and unnerving forest, was in actual fact a small puppy caught in the brambles and small thicket that was on the other side of the fence, just a few feet from the bottom of the garden.

Rachael Ball, Wolf. Graphic Novel Review. full post

(440 words, 1 image, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Gary Delaney, Comedy Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Strap yourself in and prepare for a ride, for in comedy there really should be as few barriers as possible in the pursuit of making people laugh, an audience of every conceivable demographic enjoying a Saturday night in the company of friends, loved ones and dismissing the dreadfulness of what passing for the beige appeal of weekend television and the over dramatic obliteration of hearing as the latest one-hit wonder blares out across a crowded, bland room.

Gary Delaney, Comedy Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(453 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

A Quietness Broken, In A Bootle Graveyard.

 

Broken, but still beating hearts

grieve close by to where we

have been picking off dead

leaves brought down in flight,

swirling in the dog fight of autumnal

trepidation that all soon will be mulch,

trodden down with the finger wag

of open graveside talk, the freedom

to explain away our troubles

to the deaf underground.

In this council setting,

set between the river and consuming

life, there is no beauty, all is bleak and

September day groaning with the weight

of the year gained…

A Quietness Broken, In A Bootle Graveyard. full post

(122 words, estimated 29 secs reading time)

A Simple Favour. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick, Henry Golding, Glenda Braganza, Andrew Rannells, Dustin Milligan, Danielle Bourgon, Gia Sandhu, Zack Smadu, Andrew Moodie, Sugenja Sri, Rupert Friend, Bashir Salahuddin, Eric Johnson, Linda Cardellini, Paul Jurewisc, Sarah Baker, Jean Smart, Roger Dunn, Nicole Peters, Lauren Peters.

A Simple Favour. Film Review. full post

(549 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

The Little Stranger. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter, Charlotte Rampling, Josh Dylan, Katie Phillips, Anna Madeley, Camilla Afwedson, Tim Plester, Dixie Egerickx, Darren Kent, Amy Marston, Lorne MacFadyen, Thea Balich, Alison Pargeter, Tipper Seifert-Cleveland, Sarah Crowden, Liv Hill, Kathryn O’ Reilly, Oliver Zetterstrom, Martin Carroll.

The Little Stranger. Film Review. full post

(522 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

American Animals. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast:  Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson, Spencer Reinhard, Warren Lipka, Eric Borsuk, Chas Allen, Betty Jean Gooch, Ann Dowd, Laura Grice, Udo Kier, Fedor Steer, Jack Landry, Wayne Duvall, Whitney Goin, Gary Basaraba, Robert C. Treveiler, Jane McNeill, Dorothy Reynolds, Maggie Lacey.

The overall problem with most cinematic experiences is that with some certain emotions, the truth of understanding them, even seeing them portrayed, is as likely as receiving an apologetic face from a pet cat after it has done its business in the wrong place; some reactions, some sentiments are impossible to replicate, even in the hands of a master actor.

American Animals. Film Review. full post

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

Somewhere On Dartmoor, Will Lay Eternal.

 

The train will take me

onwards, an electric hum

a bitter substitute

for the days of steam

and the loosely packed sandwich

that flirts suggestively

with the expiry date

and the unflavoured tea,

hot, sweet, dull as yesterday’s dishwater;

this journey will be different

to the one that we took when

fans in red and thick west

Lancashire accents

set fire to the carriage

and the driver sped on,

eating up miles in an attempt

to blow it out, steam train serenade.

Somewhere On Dartmoor, Will Lay Eternal. full post

(125 words, estimated 30 secs reading time)