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John Jenkins And The James Street Band, Day After Day. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To be able to reflect upon life, to look upon the world and your place within it and understand that you can at least alter, mend, see through the course of revolution, then that is the point where you can look the clock in the eye and say that Day After Day you did your utmost to see Time as the way to beat injustice and social flaws that seem to creep back into our lives like a swarm of Ants finding a crack in the skirting and leaving their footprints over the forgotten dust of rhythm and rebellion.

John Jenkins And The James Street Band, Day After Day. E.P. Review. full post

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

Roberto Diana & Tri Nguyen, The Fourth Hour. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You don’t have to understand the mechanics of the Waltz to know how elegant it looks when performed by players and dancers as they glide effortlessly on the dance floor, you do not have to sit and think about the inner working of Auden’s Stop All The Clocks or Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Hamlet when considering how the words of ordinary men and women can move and haunt you for all your life, and you don’t have to feel embarrassed when a virtuoso presents the stunning influence of Italian classical composer Lorenzo Perosi to you.

Roberto Diana & Tri Nguyen, The Fourth Hour. Single Review. full post

(390 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Kate Nash, Yesterday Was Forever. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

 

You cannot take back what was said yesterday, it hangs in the air of conversations and gossip-monger’s hearts as they find ways to bring you down to their level of insecurity or passionless existence. What you may have said, what your thoughts were being dictated to at the time may be of little consequence to the outside world, after all, the muse requires feeding, and rarely with a closed mind or mouth; and yet those that hold onto a word indefinitely if it means they have something to beat you with, the misspoken word said in jest can soon become a poison that keeps on giving.

Kate Nash, Yesterday Was Forever. Album Review. full post

(394 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Alpha. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Natassia Malthe, Johannes Hauker Johannesson, Leoner Varela, Mercedes de la Zerda, Jens Hulten, Spencer Bogaert, Priya Rajaratnam, Patrick Flanagan, Marcin Kowalczyk, Michael Kruse-Dahl, Kyle Glenn Sutherland, Louis Lay, Tran Kootenhayoo, Nestor de las Xerda, Blake Point, Nashon Douglas, Morgan Freeman.

Alpha. Film Review. full post

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

The Meg. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson, Cliff Curtis, Winston Chao, Shuya Sophia Cai, Ruby Rose, Page Kennedy, Robert Taylor, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Jessica McNamee, Masi Oka, Raymond Vinton, Hongmei Mai, Wei Yi, Vithaya Pansringarm, Rob Kipa-Williams, Tawanda Manyimo, Mark Trotter, James Gaylyn.

The Meg. Film Review. full post

(485 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

I Once Lived.

 

Four in the morning,

Autumn darkness comes early

despite the August reign.

 

I have buried my head between sheets

and my own powerful melancholy

as I try to understand how I feel

today.

 

A moment, as fleeting as the life of a burning star

or the breath of a swatted Mayfly

ripped from existence before it has had chance

to mate, to find true love

in a heartbeat, this is how it could be.

 

I should celebrate this exploding star,

I Once Lived. full post

(143 words, estimated 34 secs reading time)

Fatherson, Sum Of All Your Parts. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You may espouse the clinical release of declaring independence but it comes with a price that few are prepared to pay; perhaps deep down they understand that the allusion to proclaiming from the rock that stands aloft those that share their bonds, their blood and their history, is to deny that you are the Sum Of All Your Parts, you are unique but joined at the very heart to those who have shared your past, your present and who will inspire your future.

Fatherson, Sum Of All Your Parts. Album Review. full post

(445 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Richard Durrant, Stringhenge. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We are surrounded by history, most of it unwritten, arguably unnoticed till it either affects us, or we wilfully embrace and search for the hidden meanings in which we believe is ours by right to decipher and to proclaim to the world. The circle stones, the cave drawings, all manner of the mystical and ancient in which our world has allowed Time to swallow and conceal till we are ready, till the person concerned shows the faith in their endeavour and creates a piece of art that is gentle, illuminating and even discerning.

Richard Durrant, Stringhenge. Album Review. full post

(449 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Wemmmmmberrrrrleee.

 

Wemmmmmberrrrrleee,

It was the shout of the senior yard,

a dinner time kick-about

for those not entrenched in the arms

of the kissable lips

of the girl they had fancied

since she started wearing tight

T-shirts with movie slogans

imprinted upon it, all designed to catch the eye.

 

One goal and you were through

to the next round, tactics

playing the part, hand close by

to the keeper, ready to stab home

a winner and much to the despair

Wemmmmmberrrrrleee. full post

(239 words, estimated 57 secs reading time)

The Analogues, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Imagine being at Candlestick Park, the home of the San Francisco Giants, in late August 1966, or around two and half years later, on January 30th 1969, at ground level in Central London, looking up to the heavens and hearing the now unfamiliar live sound of four men from Liverpool. Imagine understanding that both these two events were so significant in the annals of music history, not only for the band, but for the wider implication of what went on between the two dates and what would follow; it would almost certainly be the stuff of legends, a screaming mob of fans who paid between four and six Dollars to attend the final throws of infant pop, and the almost quiet drawing on a London street of the curtain on the first part of legendary status confirmed for ever.

The Analogues, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(685 words, estimated 2:44 mins reading time)